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PRESENTED BY 







GENERAL SOCIETY 



Sons of the Revolution. 



April 19tk, IS93. 



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GENERAL SOCIETY 



Sons of the Revolution. 



Excerpt of the Meeting held in Boston, 
April 19th, 189£. 

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EXCERPT OF MEETING 



Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass., 



APRIL 19th, 1895. 




Lexington, April 19th, 1775. 



Sons of the Revolution. 



The Society met at Faneuil Hall, Boston, April 19th, 1895, 
at 11.30 A. m. It was called to order by Colonel William L. 
Chase, President of the Massachusetts Society, who opened the 
proceedings by saying : 



OPENING REMARKS OF COL. W. L. CHASE. 

It becomes my pleasant duty, in behalf of the Sons of the 
Revolution of this Commonwealth, to extend to the delegates to 
this Convention a hearty welcome to Massachusetts. You know 
our motto : " Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem." Now 
that the victorious right hand has sheathed the sword, it is 
extended to you, one and all, in hearty good fellowship. Wel- 
come to Massachusetts. And welcome to Boston, whose motto 
still is our prayer : " Sicut patribus, sit Deus nobis," and if 
God is to us as he was to our Fathers, then indeed the lines 
will be fallen to us in pleasant places. I have the honor to 
present the Honorable President of the General Society, Governor 
Carroll. (Applause.) 

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Sons of the Revolution . 



OPENING ADDRESS OP PRESIDENT JOHN LEE 
CARROLL. 

Gentlemen of the Society: — I am sure that the delegates to this 
meeting have heard with the sincerest pleasure the cordial welcome 
which has been extended to us by our Massachusetts friends and 
appreciate at their proper value the kindly words which have just 
been addressed to us by the President of the Massachusetts Society. 
In fact, we must feel that this is a proud day for us, to stand 
upon this spot which has been so aptly designated the " Cradle of 
American Liberty," and to hear from the descendants of those 
brave men who were engaged in the first conflicts of those early 
days that after the lapse of one hundred and twenty years the 
memory of that gigantic conflict is still fresh and green, and that 
from one end to the other of this broad land the spirit of brother- 
hood was never higher or stronger than it is to-day in the hearts 
of the Sons of the Revolution. 

Gentlemen, I think we may well be proud of the progress and 
spirit of our Society, and before this meeting closes there will be 
laid before you the record of the number of States that are admitted 
to-day, and have been already admitted, and also the members of 
Societies. I think I may safely say that you will admit with me 
that there are several good and solid reasons for the success which 
we are proud of to-day. In the first place, gentlemen, we owe a 
great deal to the Committee on the organization of new Societies 
for their activity, their industry and their zeal, and they have 
already received the unanimous thanks of this Society, and to-day 
we feel that they are entitled to our continued confidence. But 
there is still another reason for our success. The community well 
knows, every community that knows anything about us, that no 
man can be enrolled as a member of this Society unless the record 
of his descent from Revolutionary ancestors is made absolutely 
clear (applause). The public know and feel that whatever differ- 
ences there may be on other points, there is no wavering or un- 
certainty about this, and that our pride is enlisted, one and all of 
us, in vouching for the correctness of the record of every man who 
is associated with us as a Son of the Revolution (applause). Why, 



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gentlemen, it is the corner-stone of our edifice. Once break that 
down, and the whole fabric will be crumbled to the ground. Now, 
may I ask, does not this inspire a feeling of confidence among 
those who wish to join our body, that, coming in among us, they 
feel sure that they stand on equal ground with the same blood 
that flows in their own veins ? And now, another point for one 
moment. I do not believe that in any branch or chapter of our 
Society in any portion of this country, there has ever been a single 
individual man who has ever even been suspected of using or 
turning to his own personal ends any advantage of his position or 
what he may obtain as a member of the Sons of the Revolution 
(applause). It is well known that politics, religion, sectional 
feeling, jealousies of all kinds, are absolutely excluded from our 
deliberations (applause), and the one strong feeling of brotherhood, 
fraternal brotherhood, extends throughout the length and the 
breadth of the land (applause). 

Now, gentlemen, with these high sentiments inscribed upon our 
flag, may I not add, have we not a right to ask the aid and as- 
sistance of every man who reveres the memories of our Revolution 
to come and support us in the work which we are now doing. 
And now, as we go along and carry out the purposes of this 
meeting, which we now propose to do, I have only to say, in con- 
clusion, that I have an absolute faith that there is not a man 
among us who will be willing to lower for one moment, in the 
slightest degree, the high standards of which we are so justly proud 
and which have been the cause of our undoubted success (applause). 

Gentlemen, I take the liberty of organizing this meeting, which 
we will do, by suggesting and proposing that the Reverend Chap- 
lain of the Massachusetts Society favor us with a prayer. 

PRAYER OP REVEREND LEONARD K. STORRS, D. D., 

Chaplain of the Massachusetts Society. 

Let us pray. Almighty God, the King of kings and Lord of 
lords, Who from Thy throne dost behold and govern all the nations 
of the world. We bless Thee for Thy mercy in giving us this 
good land in which we dwell. We adore Thee as the God Whom 
our Fathers trusted and by Whose goodness we have been preserved 



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from manifold and great perils even unto this present time. In- 
spire our souls, we beseech Thee, with grateful love. Fill us with 
the abundance of Thy Holy Spirit, that we may be humble and 
watchful in prosperity, patient and steadfast in adversity, and 
always enjoy the blessed confidence of that people whose God is 
the Lord. Call to our remembrance all Thy great mercies of old 
and give us grace always to seek that righteousness which exalteth 
a nation, and avoid those sins which are the reproach of any people. 
Let Thy loving kindness and mercy be over and around us at this 
present time. Direct us in all our doings with Thy most gracious 
favor and further us with Thy continued help that in this and in 
all our works, begun, continued and ended in Thee, we may glorify 
Thy Holy Name and finally, by Thy mercy, obtain everlasting 
life. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

The calling of the roll resulted as follows : 

John Lee Carroll, General President. 
Garret Dorset Wall Vroom, General Vice-President. 
James Mortimer Montgomery, General Secretary. 
William Hall Harris, Assistant General Secretary. 
Richard McCall Cadwalader, General Treasurer. 

California. 

HOLDRIDGE OZRO COLLINS, JAMES MORTIMER MONTGOMERY. 

Connecticut. 

Louis J. Allen, Jesup Wakeman, 

Rev. N. Ellsworth Cornwall, Robert Peel Wakeman, 
William Freeman French, M. D. 

District of Columbia. 

Captain Daniel Morgan Taylor, U. S. A. 
Thomas Blagden, Cazenove G. Lee, 

Frank W. Hackett, Henry May. 

Illinois. 

Thomas Floyd-Jones, Samuel Clifford Payson, 

Arthur Leffingwell, Homer Wise. 



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Iowa. 
Henry Cadle. 

Kentucky. 

James Duane Livingston, Wilbur K. Smith. 

Maryland. 

Thomas William Hall, Daniel Coit Gilman, LL. D, 

Henry Oliver Thompson, William Bowly Wilson, 

Ogden A. Kirkland. 

Massachusetts. 

William L. Chase, Clement K. Fay, 

Leonard K. Storrs, D. D., Francis Ellingwood Abbott, 

Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D., LL. D., Henry Dexter Warren. 

Minnesota, 
eukard hurd, luther s. cushing, 

Hazen J. Burton. 

Missouri. 

Henry Cadle. 

New Hampshire. 

Eev. Henry E. Hovey, T. E. O. Marvin, 

Stephen Decatur, Harry Bouton Cilley. 

New Jersey. 

Richard Fowler Stevens, A. Q. Garretson, 

Malcolm Macdonald, Frank Obadiah Briggs, 

Hugh Henderson Hamill, Edward Robert Walker, 

Foster Conarroe Griffith, Barker Gummere. 

New York. 

John Hone, Robert Lenox Belknap, 

Robert Olyphant, William Carpender, 

W. G. Dominick, T. E. V. Smith, 

Governeur Mather Smith, M. D., Frederick Augustus Guild, 
Col. George B. Sanford, U. S. A. 



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North Carolina. 

Bosworth Clifton Beckwith, Marshall DeLancey Haywood, 

George Bradburn Curtis. 



Ohio. 

Ralph Peters. 

Pennsylvania. 

Captain Richard Strader Collum, U. S. M. C, 
Josiah Granville Leach, Grant Weideman, 

Charles Henry Jones, Ethan Allen Weaver. 

South Carolina. 

George W. Olney, Talbot Olyphant. 

Tennessee. 
Henry Hudson. 

West Virginia. 

Hon. John M. Hagans, Charles W. Brockunier, 

William F. Peterson, Samuel H. Brockunier. 

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. 

The President. Now, the next business in order will be the 
admission of new societies, so that they can take part in the pro- 
ceedings of the meeting. 

Mr. Hone (New York), Chairman of the Committee on Organi- 
zation. I will say that since our last annual meeting, eight States 
have organized. I take them as I have them here. 

In my office yesterday, I had two gentlemen, Judge Duke, and 
Mr. Cabell, who are organizing the Virginia Society. Their appli- 
cations have been received here. They have been approved by the 
General Secretary in time and they have simply had to have a 
meeting to organize, which they will do any moment. 



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Texas. Applications were returned to them approved, and they 
have since organized. The applications were returned on the 27th 
of February, 1895. 

State of Washington on the Pacific coast. Applications were 
returned about the 19th of February, or possibly a little later 
than that. 

Kentucky. January 26, organized. Kentucky is represented 
here to-day. 

Tennessee. Articles of incorporation were received on the 28th 
of November, 1894. Tennessee is represented here. 

The State of Montana. Applications were made and approved, 
and they have since organized, on the 23d of October, 1894, I 
think. Montana is not too far to send a delegate. 

South Carolina was organized last fall. It has delegates here, 
or the delegation is represented here to-day. 

Alabama, on the 16th of April, 1894. 

I think it shows, sir, that even in States where the other Society 
is supposed to have a very large foothold we have come in perfectly 
fresh, and we find no difficulty. We find a little preliminary diffi- 
culty, which would come to anybody making a new undertaking 
in any direction, but the moment that the object of the Society is 
understood and the organization begins, it just goes right straight 
along, as Mr. Cadle will tell you. Also, Illinois has gone right 
straight along. I feel very hopeful, sir, and I think we will have 
more States within a few months (applause). 

The President. The Chair will appoint the following committee 
on credentials to examine the credentials of the gentlemen who are 
appointed as delegates from the new Societies : Arthur Leffingwell 
of Illinois, Henry O. Thompson of Maryland, and Thomas Blagden 
of the District of Columbia Society. If these gentlemen will retire 
and examine the credentials of the Societies, they can be admitted 
at once on motion, so that they can take part in the proceedings. 

REPORT OP GENERAL SECRETARY. 

The President. The next business in order, gentlemen, is the 
report of the General Officers. It comes first in the report of the 
Secretary. 



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Sons of the Revolution. 



Office of the General Secretary, 

56 Wall Street (Room 5), 

New York, April 16, 1895. 

The last Report of the General Society was submitted at its 
meeting held April 19th, 1894, at Annapolis, Maryland. 

The State Societies have increased their membership, which 
to-day stands as follows : 



STATE. 


Number of 

Members 

on roll, 

April 19, 

1894. 


Since 
admitted. 


Loss by 

death since 

April 19, 

1894. 


Loss by 
Resigna- 
tion, etc., 
since April 

19, 1894. 


Total 
Member- 
ship, April 
1, 1895. 


Alabama 


12 
20 
38 
38 
185 

110 

22 
37 

93 

224 

39 

55 

9 

90 

1,380 

22 

83 

739 

"9 


13 
26 
17 
23 
39 

*8 
80 
42 

19 

71 
27 

104 

9 

14 

235 

6 

47 

158 
42 
21 

"6 


"3 

2 

2 

"i 

"3 
1 
1 

18 

1 
3 

8 


"5 
1 

"l 

3 
23 


25 




46 




55 


Connecticut 


58 




217 
19 




115 




102 




78 


Kentucky 


15 


Maryland 


108 




302 




65 




159 


New Hampshire 


18 


New Jersey 


104 




1,574 


North Carolina 


27 


Ohio 


127 


Pennsylvania 


889 


South Carolina 


42 




21 




12 


West Virginia 


15 




10 






Total 


3,205 


1,007 


43 


33 


4,203 






3,205 




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a in for Yea 


r, 998 



Total number of Insignia issued to date, 1,855 
Total number issued to April 19, 1894, 1,504 

Gain, 351 



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During the past year most satisfactory progress has been made, 
not only in the enlargement of the General Society by the formation 
of additional State organizations, but in the earnest and patriotic 
spirit which has everywhere been manifested, and in the steadfast 
determination to hold high the standard of eligibility to membership. 

The importance of a publication by the Government of the 
Archives of the Revolution has long been manifest, and it is grati- 
fying to report that Congress has taken action in the matter, from 
which it is hoped valuable results will speedily be attained. 

The Committee on Organization of New Societies, under the 
chairmanship of Mr. John Hone, has accomplished most valuable 
work, the number of State Societies added to the roll being con- 
siderable, and their organization having been perfected upon the 
most careful basis. The following State Societies have been 
organized, or are in process of formation, since the last meeting of 
the General Society : Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, Mon- 
tana, North Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, Texas and 
Alabama. 

The Reports of the diiferent State Societies show the progress 
which has been made by them in various lines, including the 
successful offer of Prize Medals for Essays by Scholars in the 
Public Schools upon subjects calculated to stimulate research and 
interest in matters relating to the Revolution, its causes and results. 

Yours very respectfully, 

James Mortimer Montgomery, 

General Secretary. 

The President. Gentlemen, a motion is in order now to accept 
the report of the General Secretary. 

Mr. Haywood (North Carolina). I move the report be received. 
The motion was seconded and adopted. 



REPORT OF THE GENERAL TREASURER. 

The President. The next business in order is the report of the 
General Treasurer. 

Mr. Cadwalader, General Treasurer, read the report, as follows : 



14 Sons of the Revolution. 

Richard M. Cadwalader, General Treasurer, in account with 
General Society, Sons of the Revolution. 

1894. Dr. 

Apr. 19th. Cash balance $254 49 

May 12th. Assessment, 1894, New York $687 50 

23d. " " Pennsylvania 376 00 

1895. 

Jan. 17th. " " Maryland 45 50 

18th. " " Minnesota 20 00 

19th. " " N. Carolina 13 50 

" " " Georgia 55 00 

21st. " " Massachusetts Ill 50 

23d. " " New Jersey 45 50 

31st. Interest on deposit 10 24 

Feb. 1st. Assessment, 1894, Missouri 24 50 

4th. " " Iowa 20 50 

5th. " " N. Hampshire 5 50 

« « " Colorado 19 00 

6th. " " Dist. of Columbia 92 50 

9th. " " Connecticut 18 50 

23d. " " Ohio 41 50 

Mch. 13th. " " Illinois 17 50 

Apr. 10th. " " California 7 50 

1,611 74 

$1,866 23 
1894. Cr. 

May 1st. J. W. Jordan, postage, express, &c $24 02 

3d. Allen, Lane & Scott, printing Gen'l Treasur- 
er's Report 5 50 

" C. W. Kelsey, engrossing, General Secretary 34 32 

10th. Exchange Printing Co., printing, Gen'l Sec'ty 116 00 

•12th. S. Barr, type-writing, " " 2 20 

" Exchange Printing Co., printing, " " 1 75 

22d. W. B. Wilson, expenses at Annapolis 250 00 

25th. Ames & Rollinson, Naval Acad. Certificates.. 15 00 

June 26th. Bailey, Banks & Biddle, Naval Acad. Medals.. 105 00 

July 9th. Jas. M. Montgomery, expenses 25 32 

23d. Exchange Printing Co., printing, Gen'l Sec'ty 9 97 

Aug. 7th. " " " " " " 9 00 

10th. C. H. Clayton & Co., letter-book, " " 1 75 

Sept. 10th. John Murphy & Co., printing directory 133 67 

" Exchange Printing Co., envelopes, General 

Secretary 12 50 

Oct. 11th. John Hone, Committee on Organization 36 60 

Nov. 12th. Exchange Printing Co., Com. on Organization 26 25 

Dec. 26th. J. W. Jordan, postage and express 14 45 



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1895. , Cr. 

Jan. 7th. Exchange Printing Co., printing, Gen'l Sect'y 25 10 

17th. Hist. Register Publishing Co., plates for flag.. 23 00 

Feb. 8th. S. V. Sykes, express, &c, Gen'l Sec'ty 8 30 

13th. Exchange Printing Co., printing, Gen'l Sec'ty 74 29 

Mch. 2d. E. Carroll, Jr., & Co., copying, " " 4 30 

22d. E. Bierstadt, photograph and map 6 00 

27th. Down-Town Mailing Agency, Com. on Organi- 
zation 18 48 

Apr. 2d. S. V. Sykes, postage, &c, Gen'l Sect'y 28 36 

8th. A. Ritterhoff, engraving, " " , 57 90 

" Exchange Printing Co., printing, Gen'l Sec'ty 105 40 

13th. Wm. A. Witherup, clerk, Gen'l Treasurer... 25 00 

" Henry Cadle, expense 63 00 

15th. Bailey, Banks &Biddle, stationery, Gen. Sec'y 224 30 

$1,486 73 

Cash balance 379 50 

$1,866 23 
Richard M. Cadwalader, 

General Treasurer. 
April 19th, 1895. 

Mr. Cadwalader (General Treasurer). Mr. President, I move 
that the Report be accepted and ask that an Auditing Committee 
be appointed and the assessment for the coming year be reported. 

The President. At the request of the General Treasurer, gentle- 
men, the Chair will appoint the following Committee to audit this 
Report and report the result of their examination at the next 
meeting : Henry Dexter Warren of Massachusetts, Rukard Hurd 
of Minnesota, Holdridge Ozro Collins of California ; that is, three 
gentlemen. 

REPORT OF GENERAL REGISTRAR. 

The President. The next is the Report of the Registrar. 

Office of the General Registrar, 
1300 Locust Street, 

Philadelphia, April 19th, 1895. 

James Mortimer Montgomery, Esq., 

General Secretary Sons of the Revolution : 

Dear Sir : — I have the honor to report that there are on file 
in this office, the Duplicate Applications of Membership of the 
following State Societies. 



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New York, California, North Carolina, 

Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, 

Maryland, Illinois, Texas. 

New Jersey, Minnesota, 

A personal examination of all of the Duplicates on file, warrants 
the expression of my opinion, that every constitutional requirement 
of military, naval or civil service of a hereditary ancestor has been 
complied with, and that the State Societies have exercised the 
utmost care in the admission of members. In this connection, I 
would especially commend the Maryland Society Duplicates for 
their fullness of details and authentication of claims. 

The preservation and arrangement for ready reference of these 
valuable documents is an important consideration. At present 
they are arranged in portfolios, and I would again renew my 
recommendation, that they be bound, by States, and properly 

indexed. 

I have the honor to be, 

Yours very truly, 

John Woolf Jordan, 

General Registrar. 

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. 

The President. The next business in order, gentlemen, is the 
report on the amendments to the Constitution that were authorized 
last year. 

Mr. Harris (Assistant General Secretary). Mr. President, in 
obedience to the direction of the Society at its meeting held in 
April, 1894, the Assistant General Secretary sent to the Secretary 
of each existing State Society, under date of July 13th, 1894, a 
letter calling his attention to the action had by the Society, inclosing 
a copy of the proposed amendment and asking that he would have 
action taken by the State Society and report to the General Society 
in time for this meeting. All the Societies have not reported, but 
a very large majority of them have done so and they have, without 
any exception, reported that their respective Societies were unani- 
mously in favor of the proposed amendments to the Constitution 
creating the offices of Second General Vice-President, General 



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Eegistrar and General Historian. I have the package of certifi- 
cates here, sir, but I suppose it is scarcely necessary to read them. 
Action was deferred. 



REPOBTS OF STATE SOCIETIES. 

The President. The next business in order is the reports of the 
State Societies, which are simply to be read by their title and 
referred to the Secretary for printing. 

Mr. Harris (Assistant General Secretary). The reports, sir, 
which have been received are sixteen in number. Taking them at 
haphazard as to their sequence, they are from the States of Ten- 
nessee, Connecticut, New York, Missouri, Minnesota, Georgia, 
Illinois, The District of Columbia, Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsyl- 
vania, Maryland, North Dakota (which is not a complete report 
and the organization has not been approved), Iowa, Colorado, and 
North Carolina. 

THE ORGANIZATION OF CHAPTERS. 

The President. Gentlemen, the Secretary will now read a letter 

from the Montana Society in reference to forming Chapters in the 

different states. 

Great Falls, April 13, 1895. 

James Mortimer Montgomery, 

General Secretary Sons of the Revolution : 

Dear Sir: — Will you kindly advise whether the organization 
of divisions or branches of the State Sons of the Revolution would 
meet the approval of the General Society. There is no law in the 
Constitution forbidding this, but we desire to take no action not 
satisfactory to it. Our city is nearly in the centre of the state, but 
our sister city, Butte, is some 200 miles south of us, and as mileage 
on Railroad is five cents per mile this means about $20.00 fare per 
cap. to say nothing of other expenses, to attend any meeting of a 
social or business character outside of the annual meeting February 
22nd. Butte City and vicinity have a large number of good men 
who are eligible to membership, and it is my judgment that they 
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could organize a division that would greatly increase the member- 
ship of the State Society. They would be able to meet in social 
concourse, give banquets, celebrate any day of historical interest, 
&c, and thus feel that they were a part of the Society and thereby 
build up a membership and increase interest in the work. When 
you consider that our state has 146,080 square miles, and is larger 
than New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 
Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania combined, you will 
appreciate the difficulty of otherwise extending the work over the 
whole state. If this plan has been adopted in any other state we 
should be pleased to learn the plan of organization. Of course it 
is understood that such branches if allowed would be subordinate 
to and a part of the State Society. I should be gratified to hear 

from you. 

Respectfully, 

Charles H. Benton, 

President Montana Society. 

Mr. Leach (Pennsylvania). Mr. Chairman, it might be well for 
me to mention what has occurred in Pennsylvania in connection 
with this matter of this letter. Our constitution does not permit 
of the organization of chapters. We simply have our State So- 
ciety. The same desire manifested itself in Pennsylvania, of having 
in different parts of the state some organization. In Pittsburg, 
for instance, the men said, "We cannot come on to your banquet 
or your annual meeting, and we would like to have some sort of an 
organization." It was the same way in Wilkesbarre. So we have 
said to them there, "We cannot authorize any chapters to be 
formed, as a State Society, but you can gather together in Pitts- 
burg and in the surrounding counties there, if you want to, and 
form a little organization among those members of the Society in 
Pennsylvania, the General Society, and then organize amongst 
yourselves what you please." And so in two or three places, I 
think in three parts of the state, they have done that. It is not 
recognized officially, by the State Society. They simply have a 
gathering among themselves, etc., and meet for social purposes, but 
they are members of the State Society. I think, under our consti- 



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tution, that it is the only thing that can be done. It is practically 
a chapter, but not so called. 

Mr. Jones (Pennsylvania). These gentlemen understand this 
matter perfectly. They seem to have a greater regard for the 
Constitution than we seem to have. They have said they have no 
rights, but simply out of deference to the General Society they ask 
our views as to whether they can assemble in this way. In my 
judgment, there is only one way of disposing of it. They under- 
stand it themselves better than we do, apparently, because they 
have said, "We know we cannot organize them, but still, if we 
do act in this informal way, we would like to know whether the 
General Society has any objection." Now, it seems to me, I would 
like to amend that motion by saying that it is a matter which is 
left entirely to the State Societies, subject to the provisions of the 
constitution of the General Society. 

The President. Well, gentlemen, that is the motion that is 
moved and seconded, that the Secretary inform these Societies that 
the appointment of chapters in the States is a matter for their own 
management, subject, of course, to the provisions of the General 
Constitution. Those in favor of the adoption will say aye, those 
opposed no. It is a vote, and the motion is adopted. 

Mr. Cadle (Missouri). Mr. President, this matter of local 
chapters is a matter of some importance to us in Missouri, and I 
think that it is due to the State Societies where they desire these 
chapters, to acquaint them and give them all the information 
possible. We have found in Missouri that the organization of 
local chapters has been very beneficial to our State Society, as an 
auxiliary to it, and without any authority from the General Society, 
taking in view the good of the General Society and our State So- 
ciety, we took it upon ourselves without any authority, we assumed 
the matter, so to speak, to give permission to certain gentlemen in 
our State to organize a local chapter. We, at our last business 
meeting, authorized any twelve gentlemen in the State of Missouri, 
who were members of our state organization, that desired to have 
a local chapter to organize the same, with a President, Vice-Presi- 
dent, a Secretary, and a board of six members to belong to the 
local chapter. We require that the applicant must be a member 
in good standing of the Missouri Society, or any other Society of 



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the Sons of the Revolution, furnishing a certificate from some 
proper State Secretary. We have in Kansas City, where our local 
chapter is located, gentlemen, who are members of the Massachusetts 
Society, I think possibly some from Pennsylvania, though I am 
not positive about that. At any rate, they belong to three or four 
different societies and on their furnishing a certificate from the 
State Secretary our local chapter there has admitted them. From 
twelve members, organized three months ago, they have grown to 
twenty-five, with a prospect of another twenty-five in the next two 
months. So I say that it has proven very beneficial in our State 
and I think that in any of the large States, where they have a 
territory which is from two to three hundred miles square, the 
cities located in opposite directions, it will be very beneficial to 
them to allow them to organize these local chapters. I think that 
some instruction ought to be given to State Societies, that wherever 
any twelve gentlemen, members in good standing of the Sons of 
the Revolution, desire to organize a local chapter, they be granted 
permission, subject, of course, their laws, their by-laws, to the 
supervision of the State Society. 

The Pi'esident. The Chair understands that the sense of the 
meeting has been taken on that, that it is a matter for the State 
Societies to have a right to determine, subject, of course, to the 
General Constitution of the Societv. 



REPORT OP THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS. 

Mr. Leffingwell (Illinois). 

Boston, Mass., April 19th, 1895. 

The Committee on Credentials report that the credentials of the 
delegates from Tennessee, South Carolina and Kentucky, have 
been examined and found correct, and the applications of these 
States, as well as those of Alabama, Montana, Texas and Washing- 
ton, for admission to the General Society, are approved, and 
recommended to the Convention. 

A. Leffingwell, 
Chairman Committee on Credentials. 



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The President. -Well, gentlemen, the committee on credentials 
reports that the delegates from Tennessee, South Carolina, Ken- 
tucky, Alabama, Montana, Texas, and Washington, have been 
recommended for admission, and the motion has been made and 
seconded for their admission. The motion has been adopted, and 
the gentlemen, delegates from these States, are admitted as members 
of this Association. The Chair congratulates these new States 
upon their admission into the General Society (applause). 

THE ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL CHAPTERS. 

Mr. Leach (Pennsylvania). Mr. President, referring to our 
resolution passed as to chapters in the different States and to the 
remarks of General Cadle, I made an inquiry of the General 
whether, in forming these chapters, it was required in his State 
that the men in the chapters should be members of the State So- 
ciety, and he said that it was, that was necessary, that they must 
be members of the State Society, in other words, that the State 
Society passed upon the credentials of these men and received the 
fees. It is quite important that that fact should be known to the 
gentlemen from the other States, so that they may follow in the 
same line with the Chapters. It is quite important that the State 
Societies should retain control of the election of men and pass upon 
the applications. 

The President. I fancy that they understand that ; that they 
have a right to do that. 

The President. The Auditing Committee will now proceed to 
report. 

Mr. Third (Minnesota). The Auditing Committee have verified 
the account of the General Treasurer and find it correct. 

We have audited the account of Mr. Montgomery as read and 
find it correct. 

We recommend that the contribution of the State Societies for 
General Society expenses for the ensuing year be fixed at fifty cents 
per member. They further recommend that $1,000 of the Special 
Fund (Certificate Account) be placed in the hands of the General 
Treasurer to be invested in a Bond. 



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QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP. 

Mr. Belknap (New York). Mr. President : — 

Your Committee, to whom was referred the communication of 
March 13th, 1894, to the General Secretary of the Sons of the 
Revolution, beg leave to report : 

That the omission from the clause of the Constitution of the 
General Society with reference to the qualification of members of 
any specific dates, confines the limitation to services rendered during 
the War of the Revolution. In the case of the Constitution of 
the New York Society, the limitation is rendered more specific by 
reason of the insertion of the dates, the 19th day of April, 1775, 
to the 19th day of April, 1783, which are the dates generally 
accepted as covering the period of the Revolutionary War. 

While there are undoubted instances of patriots connected with 
the Congress of many of the Colonies or States having, before the 
19th day of April, 1775, expressed themselves both by word and 
action in a manner hostile to the Government of Great Britain, 
and who were prevented by death, prior to the 19th day of April, 
1775, from taking an active part in the subsequent Revolutionary 
struggle, yet your Committee are constrained to the conclusion that 
it is practically impossible at this day to decide as to what would 
have constituted, in the opinion of the British authorities, treason 
to that Government, in advance of the actual commencement of 
hostilities on the 19th of April, 1775. 

Your Committee, therefore, recommend that the General Society 
declare that the words ' War of the Revolution ' in the Constitu- 
tion of the General Society be understood to cover that period from 
the 19th day of April, 1775, to the 19th day of April, 1783. 

With reference to the other matter referred to your Committee, 
viz. : the Resolution of the District of Columbia Society, requesting 
" that the Constitution of the General Society be so amended as to 
permit the honorary membership in this (the District of Columbia 
Society) of the President and Vice President of the United States 
and the Ambassador of France : " 

Your Committee are of the opinion that, inasmuch as the funda- 
mental principle of membership is descent, it would create, in their 



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judgment, a dangerous precedent to permit an honorary membership 
independent of descent, even were it at the present time restricted 
to the distinguished officials named in the resolution. 

Your Committee therefore recommend that the communication 
of the District of Columbia Society be laid upon the table. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

Robert Lenox Belknap, Chairman, Committee. 

The President. Those in favor of the adoption of the motion 
will say aye ; those opposed, no. The ayes have it, the motion is 
adopted. Are there any other special committees? 



FLAG DAY. 

Mr. Leach (Pennsylvania). Mr. President, there is no other 
Committee to report that I know of. I would like to call the 
attention of the congress to a matter. About two years ago, a 
movement was begun in Philadelphia which had the support of 
our Society, that is, the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the 
Revolution, with the view of having the 14th day of June known 
as Flag Day in our annals and the American Flag displayed on 
that day from every home in the land. As all the members here 
know, it was on the 14th day of June, 1777, that the American 
Flag, our present American Flag, was adopted. That movement 
has had our hearty support, the Pennsylvania Society, and last year 
we sent out circular letters, I think, to the other State Societies. 
The movement has grown very much. But the day will not become 
what we would like to have it unless all of our Societies take this 
matter in hand and in advance, a month or six weeks in advance 
of each 14th day of June some steps are taken in the various States 
to call the attention of the public to it. We have our editors do 
it and take very many means of bringing it before the people. It 
was very widely celebrated, I think, the first year, a year ago last 
14th of June,, but possibly not so widely celebrated last time. 
Now, I hope that all the members of the various Societies who are 
here will carry this home with them and through their Societies 
take some steps that will help to have that day known as Flag Day 



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and the American Flag displayed from every house. I ought to 
say, Mr. President, that it is quite important for our Society to take 
this matter up, inasmuch as a year ago — no, within the past year 
— a kindred Society of another name have claimed the credit of 
initiating this movement. The initiation of the movement belongs 
to the Sons of the Revolution (applause). 

Mr. Hagans (West Virginia). I understood the gentleman who 
has just taken his seat that it was the intention for the members 
of this body to carry home to their State Societies the idea of cele- 
brating the day of the anniversary of the adoption of our present 
flag. I want to say to him that the State Society of West Virginia 
at its last annual meeting passed a resolution that every member 
of the Society should on that day fling the banner to the breeze. 
He may ring bells and fire guns and shout for freedom, but in 
addition to those things we passed a strong resolution to the effect 
that on every 14th of June the gentlemen travelling in West Vir- 
ginia should be able to pick out some sire of '76 by the banner 
flung to the breeze in front of his house. 

STATUE OP JOHN PAUL JONES. 

Mr. Allen (Connecticut). Mr. President, I would like to offer 
a motion that the General Society urge that Congress pass a bill 
that was introduced in the last Congress to erect a statue of John 
Paul Jones. It does not involve any expense at all. The Society 
has interested them in it and it has been prepared for the next 
Congress and undoubtedly will be introduced in the next Congress. 
I don't believe that they even know where he was buried, and I 
think it is a neglect that this Society ought to wipe out. 

Mr. Carpender (New York). I second the motion. 

The President. The Secretary will read it, please. 

Mr. Montgomery (General Secretary). (Reading.) Resolved, 
that the General Society, Sons of the Revolution, urge upon the 
next Congress the passage of a bill appropriating a suitable amount 
to erect at the National Capital a statue of John Paul Jones. 

Proposed by Louis J. Allen and seconded by Mr. Carpender. 

The President. How does the gentleman propose that it is to be 
urged upon Congress? 



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Mr. Allen (Connecticut). Well, I think it would be well to 
appoint a committee to send in a resolution and go there itself and 
get it passed. The bill will undoubtedly be introduced in the next 
Congress. I think it only wants us to be interested in it to get it 
passed. 

The President. If the gentleman will add that as part of his 
resolution, that the Chair appoint a Committee of a few persons. 

Mr. Allen (Connecticut). That a Committee of five be appointed. 

Mr. Livingston (Kentucky). The gentleman says it will be 
introduced into the next Congress. If you will send down into 
Kentucky, we will have a man. 

The President. "Well, gentlemen, you have heard the resolution 
as suggested by the gentleman from Connecticut, that the Chair 
appoint a Committee of five gentlemen to urge upon the next 
Congress the appropriation of a sum of money to erect a monument 
to Paul Jones. Those in favor of the adoption of that resolution 
will say aye ; those opposed, no. The ayes have it, the resolution 
is adopted. The Chair will appoint this Committee at a later 
period. 

Committee. 

Rear Admiral John Grimes Walker, U. S. N., District of Colum- 
bia Society, Chairman. 

Chief Engineer Louis J. Allen, U. S. N., New York Society. 
Captain Richard S. Collum, U. S. M. C, Pennsylvania Society. 
Ogden A. Kirkland, Maryland Society. 
Arthur B. Denney, Massachusetts Society. 

PUBLICATION OP A YEAR-BOOK. 

Mr. Livingston (Kentucky). Mr. President, I would like to 
introduce a resolution : 

That it is the sense of the General Society, Sons of the Revolu- 
tion, that they publish a year-book which shall contain within it 
the names of all those members who are members of the various 
State Societies of the Sons of the Revolution, showing their descent 
and their right to membership in this Society. 

In offering this resolution I would like to state that in a number 
of Societies, and particularly in Virginia and Kentucky, it is 



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almost impossible for us to obtain any accurate information re- 
garding those men who fought in the Revolution. Now, sir, such 
information is in the hands of the General Society ; it is in the 
hands of various State Societies. Little Societies cannot afford to 
go to Washington and send a man there to look up these things ; 
but if it were in a handbook any one could turn to it. Relatives 
of men who are members of the New York, Pennsylvania, Wash- 
ington and Massachusetts Societies, who happen to be residing in 
other States, could find their ancestry quite complete and quite 
correct. It would be the means of increasing our Society. Many 
members who have gone away from the homes of our childhood 
and boyhood, youth, and gone into the West or the South, have 
left behind them all traces but recollections, simply recollections, 
and have no authorities as to their ancestries. Now, sir, I say to 
you that if this General Society should publish such a book it would 
be the means of strengthening our State Societies and increasing 
the General Society and accomplishing far greater good than each 
State Society can do by publishing its own annual year-book. For 
that reason, sir, I have the honor to present to you this on behalf 
of the delegates. 

Mr. Hurd (Minnesota). Minnesota seconds that. 

The Minnesota Society wished to introduce this last year, and I 
came prepared with that same resolution, and I desire to second 
that now. Here are several thousand names that have been 
gathered at great trouble and some of them at a considerable 
expense and it would be a most valuable record, especially to the 
western Societies, where it is extremely difficult to obtain books. 
The 'Minnesota Society has, I think, all the books that have been 
published by the different states, but those books are rare and hard 
to obtain. 

Mr. Carpender (New York). Mr. President, T think that that 
is all very well, but I think the General Society is hardly financially 
strong enough to do it yet. It may come within a year or two, 
but we have not the money. 

Mr. Hurd (Minnesota). It is simply a question of the General 
Society taking the matter up and notifying the State Societies what 
it is going to cost, and see. It will have to be done by the General 
Society. 



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Mr. Livingston (Kentucky). Only to meet the objection of my 
friend Carpender from New York by suggesting that the different 
State Societies will take enough copies of these books to pay the 
expenses of the publication, and, further than that, it will probably 
be at least a year before this book could be brought out. My 
resolution, sir, is now : 

That the General Registrar be instructed to prepare and publish 
a book which shall contain the names and records of the members 
of all the State Societies, together with an alphabetical list of all 
Revolutionary ancestors of their members and the statement of 
their service. 

That, in short, is the resolution. 

Mr. Leach (Pennsylvania). In the absence, Mr. President, of 
the General Registrar, who is a member of the Pennsylvania 
Society, and knowing something about the labor involved in 
getting up such a book, I want to say here that it would require 
almost the undivided time of our Registrar from now until the 
next time we meet, until a year from now, to prepare that book. 
If such a book were to be prepared, it would have to be referred 
to a committee, it seems to me, or the Registrar might be instructed 
to expend the money to employ a clerk to do the work during that 
year. Unless that was done, it could not be done. 

Mr. Belknap (New York). Mr. President, the matter covered 
by this proposition is a very important one ; one which will be of 
very great service, I doubt not, to the Society. As I understand 
the resolution, it is that the matter be referred to the Registrar 
and he is authorized to prepare such a book. 

We direct him to prepare such a book. Now, sir, so far, 
of course, practically this book when it is published must be 
published at the expense of the General Society and the mem- 
bers of the State Societies would be expected to take it as their 
general year-book of the Societies. I think it would be a pity 
to pass the resolution in the form in which it is placed, for the 
reason that New York has already in preparation its year-book. 
They are prepared to publish it within a few months. They are 
not, therefore, likely to be in a position to be able to take up their 
share of this general book. There are a great many questions of 
detail in connection with a work of that kind which will require 



28 Sons of the Revolution. 

very great care, systematized work, and it ought to be arranged in 
such a way as not to be a financial burden on the Society. I 
would like to offer as an amendment to this resolution : 

That the matter be referred to a special committee, of which 
the Registrar shall be one, in order to report at the next 
meeting of the General Society their recommendations as to 
the method and size to be adopted in the publications of this 
General Society. 

This covers quite a large range, as you see, my thought being 
that before we start out on making a publication we should decide 
on some uniform line, in order that all publications, whether yearly 
proceedings of the General Society, and if possible the general 
proceedings, or publications of the State Society, should as far as 
possible be made a uniform series, so that they can be bound 
together and preserved conveniently for the future. 

Mr. Montgomery (General Secretary, speaking from the floor). 
In support of that resolution, I hope the General Society will 
decide to publish a year-book, and it will be, I know, a great 
undertaking. It will not be finished for a year at the least, and 
the final determination can be passed upon next year. As to the 
paying for it, I do not think the bills will come in before next 
year. It will take at least a year to prepare this book. 

The President. Does the gentleman from New York make an 
amendment? 

Mr. Belknap (New York). I offer the amendment. 

Mr. Livingston (Kentucky). I hope the gentleman will with- 
draw the amendment. It is a matter of considerable importance, 
and yet his amendment is simply a resolution from the State Society, 
or, that is to say, a reference to the New York year-book. Now, 
we all look to New York and its year-book as a model, and we 
poor struggling Societies have not the time or the ability to get up 
such a good book. Now, his New York book will probably be 
published long before this book meets the public gaze at all. I 
don't see that his amendment would interfere or help the original 
motion in any way at all. Our idea is simply to get these materials 
together and publish them in a proper form. It will obviate the 
expense of the different State Societies getting out their own year- 
books, and the decreased expense to each State Society of not 



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publishing a year-book will largely go to maintain the General 
Society year-book. I therefore urge my motion. 

Mr. Hackett (District of Columbia). I cannot help coinciding 
with the gentleman from New York as to the wisdom of referring 
this to a Committee. Any gentleman who has had experience in 
dealing with names and data must know that it requires not only 
an immense deal of work but the most careful method ; and it seems 
to me, while this work is very desirable, in fact is necessary, that 
its operation cannot be safely entered upon except through the 
medium of a Committee, who will digest the matter thoroughly 
and who will be ready in a year from now to proceed upon it. It 
is a very important work. It would be historical and would last 
for years. While I fully sympathize with my friend from the west 
and understand the need, I do think upon consideration that we 
will agree that this should proceed in the manner indicated by the 
gentleman from New York. 

Mr. Belknap (New York). My resolution was that they report, 
the idea being to report a method of publication, a form of publi- 
cation — and I mean by that the way in which the whole thing 
should be determined. There are two or three ways in which it 
can be put into effect. There is the method which has been pursued 
by the New York Society, which is cumbersome and unduly large. 
There is another method, by means of index, and that is capable 
of one or two different forms. There is another question, with 
regard to size. Those of us who have any recollection of publica- 
tions of this Society at the present time, know that we have books 
that high and that high and that high (indicating); we have books 
this wide and that wide and that wide (indicating). It seems to 
me that before we start out on a commencement of a series of 
publications by this General Society, it is the part of wisdom and 
good judgment to have the matter threshed over as to what size of 
book, what form of publication, it is desirable for us to take, and 
then stick to it. Let us have as we have in the order of the Cin- 
cinnati, where every publication of every State Society is made 
of a uniform line, and I have a series of volumes about that long 
bound up. They are all uniform, everything, in shape. Now, 
why shouldn't this start the same way? If, however, this matter 
is referred to the General Registrar at the present moment, and he 



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is ordered to publish a book, why, it will be his general idea, and 
while it may be very excellent, yet it is quite possible that the 
general spirit may not be in full accord with all the necessities of 
the case. 

Mr. Montgomery (General Secretary, speaking from the floor). 
I will state that the General Registrar, a member of the Pennsyl- 
vania Society, has had experience with this work, from what we 
have seen of it, and he will do it, and he will do it as he has always 
done it. I do not see what difficulty there can be. He has never 
had any dispute on work of that sort. 

Mr. Floyd-Jones (Illinois). The Illinois Society is now getting 
up a book which will probably be issued next month, and it really 
covers the ground that we are trying to get at now. I will read 
a form of each member : 

Leffingwei/l, Arthur Chicago, Illinois. 

Great-great-grandson, Captain Christopher Leffingwell, Sandwich, Con- 
necticut, member of General Assembly, Sandwich, 1770. 

In command of Sandwich business men, alarm of Arnold's attack, Septem- 
ber, 1781. 

One of the projectors and financial backer of Ticonderoga expedition. 

Kef.: 

American Archives, 4th Series, Vol. 2. 
Conn. Archives, Men of the Rev., page 629. 
Conn. Historical Society, Vol. 1. 
Montpelier, Vermont, Historical Society Report. 

Every member of the Illinois Society has got to have a reference, 
and that reference shows in our book. Now, if it goes through in 
every State Society, if a book of that kind is issued, including all 
of the members of every State Society, it would be a great benefit 
to the western societies. We would like to have it. We are going 
to have our own book, and all we have to do is to pass our book 
over to the General Registrar and he can get the whole Illinois 
list ; no trouble there. 

Mr. Leach (Pennsylvania). Well, now, Mr. President, there is 
trouble there. It would be a most unfortunate book if each State 
Society should make up her own record and they should appear 
there in a different way. Some State Societies have not made up 
their record, giving references. If one Society is there with refer- 
ences and another Society not with references, the book would not 



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be uniform and would not be creditable to us. It ought to be 
either one thiug or the other, and all reports should be alike. 

The question was called for. 

The President. The question is on the amendment submitted 
by the gentleman from New York, which comes up first. The 
amendment will be read. 

The stenographer read the amendment which Mr. Belknap of 
New York had offered, as follows : 

That the matter be referred to a special committee, of which the 
Registrar shall be one, in order to report at the next meeting ot 
the General Society their recommendations as to the method and 
size to be adopted in the publications of this General Society Book. 

Mr. Belknap (New York). And also the estimated cost of the 
proposed publication. 

The President. Well, gentlemen, you have heard the amend- 
ment. Are you ready for the question ? 

The President. The Secretary will call the roll, then. The 
Chairman of each delegation will announce the vote of his State 
as the State is called. The question is on the adoption of the 
amendment. 

The vote resulted as follows : 

Yes. — California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, 
Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New 
York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and 
West Virginia — 14. 

No. — Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Tennessee — 5. 

Absent or not voting. — Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, 
Washington — 5. 

Mr. Harris (Assistant General Secretary). The vote, sir, as 
recorded, is 14 ayes, 5 noes. 

The President. Gentlemen, the report of the Secretary is that 
14 states have voted aye and 5 no. The ayes have it, therefore the 
resolution is amended, the amendment is adopted. 

Mr. Livingston (Kentucky). I move the adoption of the reso- 
lution as amended. 

Mr. Carpender (New York). Second the motion. 

The President. The question now is on the adoption of the 
resolution as amended. Will that be taken by States? 



32 Sons of the Revolution. 

Delegates. No. 

The President. Those in favor of the resolution as amended 
will say aye ; those opposed no. The ayes have it, and the motion 
is adopted as amended. 

Committee. 

Garrett Dorset Wall Vroom, General Vice-President, Chairman. 

John W. Jordan, General Registrar. 

Thomas H. Edsall, Registrar Colorado Society. 

Charles Isham, Registrar New York Society. 

Ethan Allen Weaver, Secretary Pennsylvania Society. 



PUBLICATION OF NATIONAL ARCHIVES. 

Mr. Collins (California). Mr. President, if in order, the Cali- 
fornia Society have instructed me to bring before this meeting the 
matter of the memorial to Congress looking towards the publication 
of the National Archives relating to the War of the Revolution. 
It is possible, very probable, that most of the gentlemen present 
have seen the memorial which was prepared by the California 
Society last year, a copy of which was sent to each State Society 
with a circular letter. Not to detain your attention too long, I 
will read from the circular letter a portion of what it was requested 
or what it was suggested by the California Society should be the 
action of the several State Societies : 

" We suggest that official action upon the memorial or the gen- 
eral substance thereof be had by each Society, and the results of 
such action be forwarded to the General Society with a request 
that the General Society, as the representative of the United States 
Societies, cause the same to be presented to Congress at a suitable 
time." 

I am informed that several State Societies adopted the memorial 
prepared by the California Society, some of them in substance and 
some of them in the language of the original memorial. I am 
aware that at the last session of Congress action was had looking 
towards the publication of these original records, but that action 
simply ordered that all of these archives should be placed in the 
charge of the State Department, I believe, no appropriation having 



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been passed or having been made for their publication. In further- 
ance of this view, I desire to introduce the following resolution : 

Resolved, that a Committee of five be appointed by the President, 
to take into consideration the feasibility of urging upon Congress 
the enactment of such a law as will secure the publication of all 
of the Archives of the United States government relating to the 
War of the Revolution, and that said Committee have full power 
to act in the premises. 

I introduce this resolution on behalf of the California Society. 

Mr. Cadle (Missouri). Mr. President, I would like to ask the 
gentleman from California if Congress has not already passed that 
bill. I have some correspondence with Colonel Ainsworth, Chief 
of the Bureau of War Records, at Washington, and he informs me 
that Congress did pass such a bill, and that the records of the 
State Department and Treasury Department have all been placed 
in his hands and that he is now preparing that record. 

Mr. Collins (California). I will state that Congress has not 
passed the resolution, nor has Congress made any appropriation 
for the publication of those records. Congress did pass a law at 
the last session directing that all of the Archives in the Treasury, 
the Department of the Interior and in the Post Office Department 
be turned over to the charge of the State Department, and that is 
being done now. Congress passed no appropriation nor did it 
make any provision for the publication of these Archives. The 
resolution which I have introduced looks toward the passage of a 
sufficient appropriation to secure the publication of these Archives 
in a manner similar to the publication of the records of the War 
of the Rebellion, now amounting to 78 or 80 volumes. 

The President. The resolution will be read by the Secretary, 
so that the body may understand it. 

Mr. Montgomery (General Secretary). (Reading.) 

Resolved, that a Committee of five be appointed by the President, 
to take into consideration the feasibility of urging upon Congress 
the enactment of such a law, as will secure the publication of all 
of the Archives of the United States Government, relating to the 
War of the Revolution, and that said Committee have full power 
to act in the premises. 

The President. Is the meeting ready for the question ? Those 
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34 Sons of the Revolution. 

in favor of the adoption of that resolution will say aye ; those op- 
posed no. The ayes have it, the motion is adopted. 

Mr. Collins (California). Mr. President, it is customary, I know, 
to appoint the mover of a resolution as Chairman of the Committee. 
I desire that I shall not be placed upon that Committee, because 
the work can be done very much more expeditiously and better by 
gentlemen who live near the city of Washington. 

Committee. 

Hon. Wm. Franklin Draper, Massachusetts, Chairman. 

Daniel Coit Gilman, LL. D., Maryland. 

Bishop Henry B. Whipple, Minnesota. 

Henry Cadle, Missouri. 

Judge J. M. Hagaiis, West Virginia. 

ELIGIBILITY THROUGH COLLATERALS. 

Mr. Hurd (Minnesota). I offer a resolution : 

Resolved, that the General Society directs the attention of State 
Societies whose constitutions contain eligibility through collaterals, 
that the same is in conflict with the Constitution of the General 
Society. 

Mr. Jones (Pennsylvania). I second that motion. 

The President. Is the meeting ready for the question ? 

The question was called for. 

The President. Those in favor of the adoption of this resolution 
will say aye; those opposed no. The ayes have it, the resolution 
is adopted (applause). 

Mr. Hurd (Minnesota). I would like, Mr. President, to have 
that vote taken by States, so that it will go on record. 

The President. Gentlemen, it is suggested that this resolution 
is an important one, and that it would be better to have the vote 
registered by States. The vote seems to be unanimous upon the 
resolution here, but it is thought that, being an important resolu- 
tion, it had better be reconsidered, and every State put on record 
regarding its vote either in favor of it or against it. It is within 
the power of the meeting by general consent to have that vote taken 
again by States, or to move a reconsideration of the motion by which 
this was adopted, so that it can be put by States, either one. Well, 



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the vote by which this was adopted will have to be reconsidered 
first, unless by general consent, if the meeting is disposed. 

Mr. Olyphant (South Carolina). I move the vote be reconsidered. 

The motion to reconsider was duly seconded and was adopted. 

Mr. Hurd (Minnesota). Now, I move that it be taken by States. 

The President. Now, the proposition is that we take this vote 
by States. If the meeting is ready for the question, the Secretary 
will call the roll and the Chairman of each delegation will vote 
aye or no as the State is called. 

Mr. Harris (Assistant General Secretary). Mr. President, is 
this a question upon which the general officers have an opportunity 
of recording their votes, because I think some of them would like 
to do it. 

The President. I think so. 

Mr. Harris (Assistant General Secretary). Then I call, sir, 
the President General, John Lee Carroll. 

The vote resulted as follows : 

Aye. — General President, John Lee Carroll ; General Vice- 
President, D. W. Vroom ; General Secretary, James Mortimer 
Montgomery; Assistant General Secretary, William Hall Harris; 
General Treasurer, R. M. Cadwalader. California, Connecticut, 
District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maiyland, Massa- 
chusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New 
York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ten- 
nessee and West Virginia. 

No. — None. 

Absent or not voting. — General Registrar, John Woolf Jordan. 
Alabama, Colorado, Florida and Georgia. 

Mr. Harris (Assistant General Secretary). Unanimous, sir, by 
every General Officer and by all the States. 

The President. The resolution is unanimously adopted by States, 
as well as vive voce. (Applause.) 

THE NEXT MEETING. 

The President. The Secretary will read a letter from Georgia 
in relation to the next annual meeting of this Society. 
Mr. Montgomery (General Secretary). (Reading.) 



36 Sons of the Revolution. 

1776-1883. 

Sons of the Revolution. 

State of Georgia. 

Savannah, April 12th, 1895. 

To the Hon. John Lee Carroll, 

General President of the General Society 

of the Sons of the Revolution : 

Dear Sir : — I am authorized, by a resolution of the Society of 
the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Georgia, passed at its 
last annual meeting, to extend to the General Society an invitation 
to hold its next annual meeting in the city of Savannah. 

Cordially complying with this most agreeable duty, and trusting 
that the General Society will accept this invitation, I have the 

honor to remain, 

Very faithfully yours, 

John Scriven, 

President. 

Mr. Jones (Pennsylvania). Are you going to take some action 
on that? 

The President. Yes. The question is before the meeting. A 
motion is in order. 

Mr. Jones (Pennsylvania). I move that the invitation of the 
Georgia Society be accepted, and that the next annual meeting of 
the General Society be held at Savannah, Georgia. 

Mr. Hone (New York). I second the motion. 

The President. Gentlemen, you have heard the motion. Those 
who are in favor of its adoption will say aye ; those opposed, no. 
The ayes have it, the motion is adopted. 

Mr. Jones (Pennsylvania). Mr. President, I offer the following 
resolution : 

Resolved, that the General Society of Sons of the Revolution 
desires to express to the Honorable, the Mayor and Board of 
Aldermen of the city of Boston, its thanks for the courtesy which 
has permitted it to enjoy the privilege of holding its meeting of 
April nineteenth, 1895, in Faneuil Hall. 

Mr. Carpender (New York). I second the motion. 



Excerpt of Meeting. 37 

The President. You have heard the motion, gentlemen. Those 
in favor of adopting it will say aye ; those opposed, no. The ayes 
have it, the motion is adopted. 

Mr. Jones (Pennsylvania). I also offer the following resolution : 

Resolved, that the General Society of Sons of the Revolution 
extends to the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts, collectively, and to its Members indi- 
vidually, its hearty thanks for the cordial and hospitable reception 
which it has received in the Commonwealth, and its most sincere 
hope that the Society within its borders may uninterruptedly in- 
crease and prosper. (Applause.) 

Mr. Olyphant (South Carolina). I second the motion. 

Mr. Hackett (District of Columbia). I move that be taken by 
a rising vote. 

The President. Those in favor of the adoption of the resolution 
will please rise ; those opposed. It is unanimously adopted. 

Mr. Hagans (West Virginia). Mr. President, I move we 
adjourn. 

Mr. Montgomery (General Secretary). The Massachusetts Society 
desires it to be announced that dinner will be served at the Algon- 
quin Club at seven o'clock this evening. 

The motion to adjourn, which had been made by Mr. Hagans, 
of West Virginia, was duly seconded. It was adopted, and the 
convention adjourned. 




Washington Assuming Command of the Abmt. 



Prize Essays. 



PRIZE ESSAYS. 



At a meeting of the General Society held in the Senate Chamber 
in Annapolis on the 19th of April, 1894, it was resolved that a 
Gold Medal as a First Prize and a Silver Medal as a Second Prize 
for the best Original Essays upon the subject " The Navy in the 
Revolution " should be offered to the Cadets of the United States 
Naval Academy. 

The Essays were to contain not less than 1776 words, and to be 
signed by a nom-de-plume, accompanied by a sealed envelope (with 
the nom-de-plume on the outside) containing the writer's real name. 

The Secretary of the Navy, Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, was present 
at that meeting, and he very kindly consented to the Prize Medals 
being offered. 

In response to this offer quite a number of cadets submitted 
Essays, which were handed to a Committee composed of William 
Hall Harris, Assistant General Secretary, Daniel Coit Gilman, 
LL. D., President of the Johns Hopkins University and Thomas 
"William Hall, Esq., of the Maryland Society. 

In the judgment of the Committee, the successful competitors 
were: 

Gold Medal. — Naval Cadet Cassius Bartlett Barnes : 
Silver Medal. — Naval Cadet James Proctor Morton : 

and they were so awarded. 

The presentation was made at the Naval Academy by Daniel 
Coit Gilman, LL. D., and Thomas William Hall, Esq., on June 
1st, 1895. 

41 



THE PRIZE ESSAY. 
(gold medal.) 

The American Navy in the War of the 
Revolution. 



In the piping times of P eace > a Nation ' s Navv exists in two 
separate and distinct parts— the protective Navy, and the merchant 
marine. In war, it becomes the duty of the former to protect the 
latter, and the one becomes so blended in the other that there is no 
exact line of demarcation. 

At the commencement of the War of the Revolution, which was 
then more of an insurrection than a revolution, America had no 
Navy distinctively her own. Bearing about the same relation to 
the English government as the old Roman provinces did to the 
rule of the seven-hilled city, and treated by that government with 
the same disregard and contempt for their natural and moral rights, 
the several colonies, goaded to desperation by this arrogant op- 
pression, resolved upon war as a last resource, and immediately 
entered upon it almost wholly unprepared. 

What an unequal fight it was ! England had established the 
best Navy in the world both in number and size of vessels and in 
the thorough discipline and training of their crews. America, her 
natural resources untouched, depending almost entirely upon Eng- 
lish ships for her commercial intercourse with other countries, with 
not a single man-of-war to guard her rugged shores or report the 
advent of British transports, was nearly destitute. 

There was no time for organization of fleets under experienced 
commanders. There were no ships belonging to the colonial 
government to form a nucleus upon which a Navy could be built. 

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44 Sons of the Revolution. 

But there were the illimitable forests of New England given to the 
American people by the same just God that gave them freedom, 
and to these forests the people resorted to assist in defending that 
freedom. American industry and perseverance soon furnished a 
few ships, which, when equipped by American seamen, supplied the 
government with others in much less time than is required for 
building them. 

But America's ascendancy lay in the courage and pluck of her 
individual citizens, just such qualities as were then necessary to win 
a naval battle. In our day of long range naval fights, when the 
call of" Boarders Away" will probably never be heard, it stirs the 
blood and lights the eye to think of those times when two hostile 
ships were brought together, and men, drawn cutlasses in hand, 
scarcely waited for the grappling irons, but vied with each other in 
reaching the enemy's deck, from which there was no retreat until 
her proud ensign was lowered to the " Stars and Stripes." 

When the difficulties under which the American seamen then 
labored are considered, the wonderful courage they displayed is 
amazing even in our day of brave men. 

What a tribute to American valor and patriotism ! What daring 
to invade Old Albion's very shores and strike terror to the heart 
of the Briton whose eyes had not for generations beheld England's 
foe on her own well-guarded isle. 

At every encounter men were transformed into heroes. He who 
served the guns ; he who manned the tops and picked off the enemy 
one by one ; he who, with cutlass and pistol, wounded, even dying, 
yet sustained by bright hopes of freedom, fought till there was left 
none to oppose him ; all are alike heroes. 

The reward for one well-fought battle was often to die in the next. 
Yet men but sought the conflict more eagerly. Inspired by the 
knowledge that a just cause must prevail and of duty nobly done, how 
blest were they who closed their eyes as Britain's flag was lowered ! 

Man after man that had spent his life and amassed some riches 
in the peaceful pursuit of commerce, surrendered his private am- 
bition and converted his merchant vessel into a privateer, manned 
her at his own expense, commanded her himself and sailed forth 
in quest of battle. By such sacrifices alone was honor sustained 
and freedom purchased. 



Prize Essays. 45 

The story of the Bon Homme Richard, sailed by a gallant 
captain, is characteristic of American valor. When her English 
combatant, seeing the carnage and destruction his guns had wrought, 
asked if she struck, he was answered that the fight had but begun. 
Yes, there were more English ships and more English subjects and 
John Paul Jones knew where to find them and how to take them 
when he had found them. 

Jones was called a pirate and freebooter by the British, because 
he sailed along their coasts destroying their shipping and threaten- 
ing whole sections of their country. They did not understand how 
such deeds of daring could be performed by a human being. In 
their minds his dashing bravery in the prosecution of a good cause 
could not be separated from the idea of an outcast of every nation 
living on the sea and preying upon commerce. Much more like 
pirates were those British officers, who feeling secure of the fact of 
England's supremacy on the seas, attacked and captured American 
ships in neutral harbors. Even after the war, England declined 
to make reparation for these crimes as required by international 
custom. 

The Declaration of Independence gave a joyful impetus to the 
war. Now it was a free country, untrammeled by hereditary 
monarchy, protecting free institutions, that the American was 
called upon to sustain. William Pitt, the brightest star among 
the constellation of England's statesmen, had declared that this 
war could end but in ignominy and shame for England. Like 
Cassandra with the Trojans his prophesy was fated to go unheeded, 
and England lost more brave men and fairer land than she can 
ever hope to conquer. 

Blue-jackets to serve the guns and manoeuvre the ships were at 
all times badly needed. Veteran seamen preferred to man a priva- 
teer where naval discipline was not observed, with chance of rich 
prizes, to enlisting in a service in which remuneration was small 
and uncertain and discipline very severe. 

Owing to this difficulty our crews were often of the most mixed 
character. Combining the different national characteristics of 
almost all the nations of Europe within the limited living space 
of a ship is hardly conducive to those feelings which should bind 
men fighting shoulder to shoulder for a common cause. And, 



46 Sons of the Revolution. 

laboring under such disadvantages, never sure that mutiny was not 
breeding, the officers of a ship were at all times called upon to per- 
form miracles of valor to inspire with confidence such a hetero- 
geneous crew. 

Yet in every case they proved themselves fully competent. 
Jones, Barry, Tucker, Biddle — even to this day their names are 
inspiring to the young American that hears their exploits. To be 
the son of such a sire is better than to be the heir of the United 
Kingdom. 

The Americans sent out a few small fleets at different times, but 
they were unable to successfully engage those of King George, 
because of the disparity in numbers and meagreness of equipment 
of their ships. 

American privateers did noble service against the enemy, in de- 
stroying vessels and otherwise crippling for the time England's 
commerce by sea. Their service makes the right to commission 
such vessels during war invaluable to America until she has brought 
her standing Navy to that degree of perfection which would enable 
her to successfully cope with any foreign power on the sea. And 
it was the recollection of their value in this war that led the nation 
to decline to surrender that right when invited to do so by England 
and other great sea powers. 

In '77 France acknowledged the independence of the colonies, 
and sent a fleet under D'Estaing to aid them against her old enemy. 
While upon several occasions the French did render the colonies 
able assistance, yet by the action of D'Estaing in withdrawing his 
fleet just at the time it was most needed, the fall of one of the 
principal American cities was precipitated and much American 
ammunition and stores fell into the hands of the British. 

So, whatever of glory on the sea is due to freedom's cause in the 
War of the Revolution belongs rightfully to those patriots alone, 
who, by their personal bravery and untiring perseverance against 
overwhelming odds, performed such deeds as to call forth the 
bravos of all Europe. 

Tyranny could not possibly withstand for long the onslaughts 
of such dogged determination. 

Bested both by land and sea the red-coat of England and the 
hired Hessian were alike ready to withdraw from war with a 



Prize Essays. 47 

country advocating such mighty principles and so ably defending 
them. 

From this war the United States arose a sovereign and inde- 
pendent Nation — a Nation which already had a history of noble 
deeds and patriotic principles. She, infant as she was, found Eng- 
land " mistress of the seas," and left her stripped of her gaudy 
prestige. 

And those men who wrought such changes — where are they now? 
Dead ? Never. Like as a devout believer builds a shrine to his 
patron saint, so the American people have their patriots' names 
enshrined in their hearts. They shall never die. Oblivion is not 
for those who devoted their lives to such a cause. The remem- 
brance of their exploits is ever recurring. As we face the roomy 
decks of the old Alliance, Franklin and Portsmouth where Ameri- 
cans died that we might be Americans, what a feeling of reverence 
floods our hearts for those that left to their posterity this fair land, 
the worthy birthplace of freedom ! 

The national ensign, the " Stars and Stripes," as free as the winds 
that unfold it, covers its patriot dead. No more will they join 
battle for it and the mighty principles of which it is symbolic. 
But should an occasion ever again arise in which such principles 
need defense, their names, their deeds, their death, has surely incul- 
cated in their posterity enough of their loyalty and patriotism to 
maintain that which they themselves established. 

America. 



SECOND PRIZE ESSAY. 

(silver medal.) 

The American Navy in the War of the 
Revolution. 



The history of the struggle for Independence participated in by 
the thirteen colonies, and resisted by the mother country, presents 
to view a stirring panorama that is, in many particulars, without 
a parallel in the annals of warfare, ancient or modern. 

When Great Britain entered the contest to prevent the secession 
of her richest and most powerful colonies, she could have enter- 
tained no thought of other than a brief war. Secure in her title, 
" the Mistress of the Seas," she had little to fear in the way of 
opposition. No apparent obstacle existed to prevent the landing 
of her armies ; no powerful navy rode at anchor in the American 
ports to protect our shores from foreign invasion ; England seemed 
only in need of sufficient vessels to transport her troops. An un- 
prejudiced observer would most unhesitatingly have averred that 
those disciplined battalions and well-trained squadrons that crossed 
the Atlantic under the standards of King George, came with 
victory at their helms. But as the picture gradually unfolds 
itself, he is brought to realize what a brave people may do when 
freedom is in danger ; and, in the end, he finds himself wondering 
if there is a limit to human endurance or to human bravery. 

The desperate condition, into which the affairs of the country 
were thrown by reason of the sudden outburst of war, rendered 
practically null that clause of the Confederation which gave Con- 
gress power "to provide and maintain a navy;" and it is a re- 
markable fact that what came subsequently to be regarded as the 
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Prize Essays, 49 

right arm of the national defense, was so little fostered or thought 
of at the beginning of those eight years of suffering and bloodshed. 
No country ever went to war with so hopeless an outlook as far as 
maritime operations were concerned. While the services of many 
seafarers were available, who were well versed in the practical 
principles of seamanship and navigation, their knowledge had been 
obtained under the schooling of the merchant marine ; and those 
qualities that so markedly distinguish the naval officer from the 
merchant seaman were not to be expected. The country in peace 
had not prepared for war ; the colonies had become accustomed to 
rely on England for protection on the sea ; all that was to be sub- 
sequently regarded as maritime strength was yet undeveloped. 

The initial step taken to establish a coast defence was a resolu- 
tion, passed by Congress in 1775, for the construction of two ships, 
whose chief end should be the destruction of supply vessels that 
were continually transporting troops and military stores for the 
maintenance of the invading army. Although the number was 
augmented from time to time, never during the entire period of the 
war did the Navy boast as many as thirty ships actually serving 
under the orders of the Continental Congress. In contrast to this 
number we behold, at the same time, the British Navy floating 
three hundred formidable vessels, fully equipped and manned. 

Notwithstanding our meagre force, the American cruisers opened 
the war upon the sea by attacking the commerce carried on between 
England and Africa, and met with such success that during the 
first two years of the war many hundred vessels of the British 
merchant service were captured, and the African trade almost an- 
nihilated. These cruises had the twofold effect of keeping up a 
show of resistance, while a more powerful navy could be created, 
and of inspiring the colonists with a hope of ultimate success. 

The spirit of the people was strikingly manifested in the great 
number of privateers that entered the Service at this time to share 
the weal and woe of the infant navy. Legislative acts authorizing 
seizure of armed ships and merchantmen of the enemy aroused a 
new zeal among New England ship-owners ; and they, having waited 
only legal sanction, now proceeded to make their vessels formidable, 
and the high seas soon swarmed with privateers whose daring, dash, 
and vigor, so effectually hindered the commerce and harassed the 
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60 Sons of the Revolution. 

navy of the English, that the new government was forced into a 
position not to be despised by even the haughty mother country. 

Early in the year of 1776, Great Britain began to take a more 
serious view of the naval war hitherto waged in a desultory manner, 
and to make preparations to drive the American vessels from the 
seas. Special inducements in the shape of bounties were offered 
by the government to induce recruits to enter His Majesty's Navy; 
impressment was resorted to, and all possible means were exhausted 
to fill the scant crews at the English guns. This side of the At- 
lantic, how different ! Every ship was manned as soon as ready 
for sea ; letters of marque and reprisal were granted by Congress 
in answer to petitions, and the countless captures that followed 
showed the sea-power to be a potent factor in the great struggle. 
In the short time that had elapsed since the declaration of war the 
navy had made unprecedented strides. The patriotic sacrifices 
made by the hundreds of men that went to sea in inferior vessels, and 
against the foremost navy in the world, should never be forgotten. 

Two enterprises of this war cannot be overlooked : they are the 
famous cruises of Wickes and Jones. The first named, in the 
summer of 1776, with his cruiser, the Reprisal, accompanied by the 
Lexington and the Dolphin, carried terror to the English and Irish 
seas, where he made capture after capture, and no English ship was 
safe as long as his three were abroad ; he extended his cruise to the 
West Indies and added many more to his list of prizes. This style 
of warfare was one that even England, boasting all her ponderous 
navy, and schooled as she was in the art of war, was not acquainted 
with ; it was a departure from all known practices in naval tactics ; 
and not until England felt the tide of commerce stemmed, did she 
fully realize the efficiency of the new system. 

But daring among the dauntless, famous among the famed, stands 
one whose counterpart history does not furnish — John Paul Jones! 
With crews of ill-supplied, undisciplined men, and officers guilty 
of constant insubordination, success seemed impossible. He found 
himself in a situation that called into play all the sagacity, coolness 
and bravery that formed his distinguishing traits. After destroying 
such of the enemy's ships as came to his notice, and burning maga- 
zines and stores along the coast of Canada, he ventured eastward 
and led attacks against the ports of the British Isles. With his 



Prize Essays. 51 

inferior ships he burned and plundered ; and at sea gave battle to 
the best ships he encountered. So terrible were his ravages that 
no vessel of commerce dared to venture upon the sea unaccompanied 
by a man-of-war. In his flagship Bon Homme Richard, he attacked 
the Serapis, and notwithstanding the inequality of the vessels and 
the recent trials through which his men had passed (they being at 
the time in a state bordering on mutiny), he fought such a desperate 
battle that his opponent was forced to surrender after one of the 
most sanguinary combats of history. This testifies to the despera- 
tion with which our seamen fought ; it was a desperation that com- 
pensated for the lack of discipline and skill. 

But the darkest period of the war was yet to come. The French 
government had been unable to provide the promised forces ; the 
army was in a state of starvation at the beginning of the year 
1780; and the campaigns that had been so hopefully planned were 
abandoned for want of men. Instinctively all eyes were turned 
toward the navy — that organization once so despised, but which had 
subsequently forced itself into prominence and was now regarded as 
indispensable to the further maintenance of the war. But in the 
general disaster that overtook the American forces, the Navy 
suffered as well as the Army; the privateers with their more 
favorable inducements absorbed the great majority of seamen that 
had hitherto supplied the regular vessels of war; and, as their 
actions were almost entirely confined to the captures of merchant- 
men, the navy was sadly reduced in the numbers of both officers 
and men ; further exchange of prisoners being refused by the enemy, 
the numbers were reduced still more. Never since the beginning 
of the Revolution had the condition of the navy reached so low an 
ebb. Of those vessels that had carried on the war with results so 
damaging to Great Britain's sea power, only six now remained. 
So we see that as regards both ships and men the navy was in a poor 
condition to respond to the appeals of the Americans to continue the 
now seemingly hopeless conflict. The enemy had blockaded the 
coast of New England with a splendid navy recently constructed 
to terminate this struggle with the now enfeebled colonies. 

In the summer of this year Captain Nicholson and a few other 
brave commanders conducted our merchantmen, at various times, 
past the blockade, after victorious actions with overwhelmingly 
superior forces. 



52 Sons of the Revolution. 

This was but a single instance of the inequality that characterized 
the battles of this war j a general view will show that this state of 
affairs was not only true in the case of special engagements but 
also in the final summary. The Continental vessels lost in the 
entire eight years of war amounted to less than thirty, while the 
English loss did not fall below a hundred. This combined with 
the capture of nearly a thousand ships of the merchant service goes 
to show the noble resolution and unparalleled success with which 
the naval heroes of the war of the Revolution acquitted themselves 
in the time of national peril. 

The dawn of the next year saw victory crown the efforts of Army 
and Navy — the two had vied with each other in glorious deeds, 
and to both belong the praise. The Army had done its share — 
Saratoga, Trenton, and Yorktown, tell the story of their achieve- 
ments. But, the Navy ? What had it done to aid the struggle for 
Independence ? It had carried the " Stars and Stripes " to foreign 
waters and secured its recognition from European nations; it had 
announced to the world that a new Republic had been established 
and was battling bravely for its self-preservation ; it had shown in 
its ships what the spirit of freedom could accomplish without navy- 
yards and with reduced resources ; it had kept our ports open to 
commerce and had humbled the proud spirit of Great Britain by 
destroying many of her most valuable vessels of trade and of war. 

Without the vigilance and activity of the navy, with its crews of 
fearless patriots, what would have happened ? The transportation 
of British troops aud their landing on the shores of the colonies 
would have met no opposition ; the supplies from England sent to 
maintain these troops would have needed not so much as a gunboat 
for safe conduct; the commerce of the struggling colonies would 
have stagnated behind the blockade's grim line of warships, while 
England's trade with her numerous dependencies would have been 
untrammeled; the seaport cities — chief centres of nourishment to 
the great cause — would have been powerless before the bombarding 
fleets of the enemy ; in short, the war would have been, as pre- 
dicted, a brief struggle; victory for the colonies would have been 
impossible ; and freedom, with all those blessings so dear to every true 
American, would have been strangled at its birth. 

Veritas. 



CERTIFICATE OF MEMBERSHIP, 



The Certificate of Membership issued by the General Society is 
reproduced on the following page. 

The Design is by Mr. Stanford White. 

The Plate is etched by Mr. Wm. Sartain. 

It is printed on parchment. 

The size of the plate, 19 x 24 inches, will permit inscribing the 
name and service of but one ancestor. 

To cover the cost of plate, parchment, engraving, engrossing, 
seal, etc., the price has been fixed at $5.00. 

Members desiring this certificate will please send the name of 
the ancestor they wish to appear, with the above amount ($5.00), 
to the Secretary of their State Society. 



OFFICERS 



OF THE 



GENERAL AND STATE SOCIETIES. 



July 4th, 189?. 



OFFICERS 

OF THE 

GENERAL SOCIETY. 



General President, 
HON. JOHN LEE CARROLL, Ellicott City, Md., 

Of the Maryland Society. 

General Vice- President, 
GARRET DORSET WALL VROOM, Trenton, 

Of the New Jersey Society. 

Second General Vice-President, 
JOHN SCREVEN, Savannah, 

Of the Georgia Society. 

General Secretary, 
JAMES MORTIMER MONTGOMERY, No. 97 Cedar Street, New York, 

Of the New York Society. 

Assistant General Secretary, 

WILLIAM HALL HARRIS, No. 216 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, 

Of the Maryland Society. 

General Treasurer, 
RICHARD McCALL CADWALADER, 710 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 

Of the Pennsylvania Society. 

General Assistant Treasurer, 
STEPHEN SALISBURY, Worcester, 

Of the Massachusetts Society. 

General Chaplain, 
REV. MORGAN DIX, D. D., S. T. D., New York City, 

Of the New York Society. 

General Registrar, 
JOHN WOOLF JORDAN, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, 

Of the Pennsylvania Society. 

General Historian, 
THEODORUS BAILEY MYERS MASON, U. S. N., Washington, 

Of the District of Columbia Society. 
(57) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



IN THE 



STATE OF NEW YORK. 



Instituted -- February 2*2, 1876. 

Reorganized December 4, 1883. 

Incorporated under the Laws of the State of New York ----- May 3, 1884. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
FREDERICK SAMUEL TALLMADGE, 167 Broadway, New York. 

Vice-President. 
WILLIAM GASTON HAMILTON, Hotel Waldorf, New York. 

Secretary. 
THOMAS E. VERMILYE SMITH, 56 Wall Street, New York. 

Treasurer. 
ARTHUR MELVIN HATCH, 96 Broadway, New York. 



Board of Managers. 

JOHN LAWRENCE, 

BENJAMIN DOUGLAS SILLIMAN, 

CHARLES AUGUSTUS SCHERMERHORN, 

ASA BIRD GARDINER, 

CHARLES AUGUSTUS PEABODY, Jr., 

HENRY WYCKOFF Le ROY, 

JOHN HONE, 

CHARLES HORNBLOWER WOODRUFF, 

WILLIAM GAYER DOMINICK, 

FREDERICK CLARKSON, 

JOHN TAYLOR TERRY, Jr. 



Registrar. Historian. 

CHARLES ISHAM, TALBOT OLYPHANT, 

Hotel Waldorf, New York. 21 Cortlandt Street, New York. 

(58) 



Chaplain. 

Rev. BROCKHOLST MORGAN, 

38 Bleecker Street, New York. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

JOHN HONE, 

ROBERT LENOX BELKNAP, 
ROBERT OLYPHANT, 
WILLIAM CARPENDER, 
JOHN CANFIELD TOMLINSON. 

Alternates. 

WILLIAM GAYER DOMINICK, 

GOVERNEUR MATHER SMITH, 

FREDERICK A. GUILD, 

WILLIAM BUNKER, 

Lieut. Col. GEORGE B. SANFORD, U. S. A. 



Total Membership, i»599« 

(59) 



PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY 

OF 

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Instituted April 3, 1888. 
Incorporated under the Laws of the State of Pennsylvania, September 29, 1890. 



OFFICERS. 
President. First Vice-President. 

WILLIAM WAYNE, RICHARD McCALL CADWALADER, 

Paoli, Pa. 710 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Second Vice-President. 
WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M. D., Harrisburg, Pa. 
Secretary. 
ETHAN ALLEN WEAVER, Lock Box 713, Philadelphia. 
Residence, 3215 Spencer Terrace, West Philadelphia. 
Treasurer. 
CHARLES HENRY JONES, 505 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 
Registrar. Historian. 

Capt. HENRY HOBART BELLAS, U. S. A., JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH, 

Germantown, Penna. 733 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Chaplain. 
Rev. GEORGE WOOLSEY HODGE, 334 South 13th Street, Philadelphia. 



Board of Managers. 
JAMES EDWARD CARPENTER, Chairman. 
WILLIAM SPOHN BAKER, Hon. SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER, LL. D., 
GEORGE MECUM CONARROE, WILLIAM MACPHERSON HORNOR, 

ISAAC CRAIG, JAMES MIFFLIN, 

Rev. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN, Dr. THOMAS HEWSON BRADFORD. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
JAMES EDWARD CARPENTER, 
CHARLES HENRY JONES, 

Capt. RICHARD STRADER COLLUM, U. S. M. C, 
Hon. SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER, LL. D, 
JOSEPH GRANVILLE LEACH. 

Alternates. 
FREDERICK PRIME, 
HENRY WHELEN, Jr., 
GRANT WEIDMAN, 
ETHAN ALLEN WEAVER, 
WASHINGTON HOPKINS BAKER, M. D. 



Total Membership, 889. 

(60) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

Instituted March 11, 1889. 
Incorporated under the Laws of the United States, December, 1889. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
LEWIS JOHNSON DAVIS, 1411 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W., Washington. 

Vice-President. 
Admiral JAMES A. GREER, U. S. N., 2010 Hillyer Place, Washington. 

Treasurer. 
ALEXANDER BROWN LEGARE, Metropolitan Club, Washington. 

Secretary. 
CHARLES LAWRENCE GURLEY, 1335 F Street, N. W., Washington. 

Registrar. 
WILLIAM H. LOWDERMILK, 1424 F Street, N. W., Washington. 

Historian. 
GAILLARD HUNT, 1466 Rhode Island Avenue, N. W., Washington. 

Chaplain. 
Rev. RANDOLPH HARRISON McKIM, D. D, 1621 K Street, N. W., Washington. 



Board of Managers. 

DANIEL W. FLAGLER, U. S. A., 

GAILLARD HUNT, 

ALBION KEITH PARRIS, 

BENJAMIN LEWIS BLACKFORD, 

CHARLES HARROD CAMPBELL, 

BARRY BULKLEY, 

FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR SANDS, 

HENRY GREENWAY KEMP, 

CHARLES FREDERICK TIFFANY BEALE. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

THOMAS BLAGDEN, 

FRANK W. HACKETT, 

HENRY MAY, 

CAZENOVE G. LEE, 

Captain DANIEL MORGAN TAYLOR, U. S. A. 



Total Membership, ... ... 2 i6. 

(61) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF IOWA. 

Instituted Apbil 19, 1890. 



officers;. 

President. 
Right Rev. WILLIAM STEVENS PERRY, D. D. (Oxon.), LL. D., D. C. L., 

Bishop op Iowa. 

Vice-President. 

SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, Davenport. 

Secretary. 

Ven. SAMUEL ROOSEVELT JOHNSON HOYT, S. T. D., 

Archdeacon of Davenport. Davenport. 

Treasurer. 

ESEK STEERE BALLORD, Davenport. 

Chaplain. 

Rev. SAMUEL NEWELL WATSON, D. D., Iowa City. 

Registrar. 

HENRY HERVEY HILLS, Davenport. 

Historian. 

Rev. WILLIAM SALTER, D. D., Burlington. 



Board of Managers. 

Right Rev. WILLIAM STEVENS PERRY, 

SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, 

Ven. SAMUEL ROOSEVELT JOHNSON HOYT, 

ESEK STEERE BALLORD, 

Rev. SAMUEL NEWELL WATSON, 

HENRY HERVEY HILLS, 

Rev. WILLIAM SALTER, 

EDWARD SEYMOUR HAMMATT, 

Hon. GEORGE MARTIN CURTIS, 

THEODORE WELLS BARHYDT, 

JOHN BELL DOUGHERTY, 

CHARLES SEYMOUR ROBISON. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

Rt. Rev. WILLIAM STEVENS PERRY, WILLIAM CLEMENT PUTNAM, 

Hon. GEORGE MARTIN CURTIS, WILLIAM PERRY BRADY, 

ARTEMUS LAMB. 

Alternates. 
CLIFFORD DUDLEY-HAM, Rev. SAMUEL NEWELL WATSON, 

EDWARD SEYMOUR HAMMATT, JAMES BLAINE MASON, 

JAMES MADISON De ARMOND, M. D. 



Total Membership, - - 85. 

(62) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IS THE 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 

Instituted January 6, 1891. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

S. MEREDITH DICKINSON, Trenton. 

Vice-President. 

CLEMENT HALL SINNICKSON, Salem. 

Secretary. 

JOHN ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Trenton. 

Treasurer. 

HUGH HENDERSON HAMILL, Trenton. 

Registrar. 

FOSTER CONARROE GRIFFITH, Trenton. 

Historian. 

MORRIS HANCOCK STRATTON, Salem. 

Chaplain. 

Rev. CHARLES MARTER PERKINS, Salem. 



Board of Managers. 
GARRET DORSET WALL VROOM, 
GEORGE MAXWELL ROBESON, 
RICHARD FOWLER STEVENS, 
SCHUYLER COLFAX WOODHULL, 
GILBERT COLLINS, 
THOMAS J. YORKE, Jr., 
MALCOLM MACDONALD, 
A. Q. GARRETSON, 
WILLIAM ELMER, M. D. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
RICHARD FOWLER STEVENS, GILBERT COLLINS, 

S. MEREDITH DICKINSON, FRANK OBADIAH BRIGGS, 

THOMAS J. YORKE, Jr. 

Alternates. 
MALCOLM MACDONALD, HUGH HENDERSON HAMILL, 

JOHN ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, SCHUYLER COLFAX WOODHULL, 

FOSTER CONARROE GRIFFITH. 



Total Membership, 104. 

(63) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF GEORGIA. 

Instituted May 22, 1891. 
Incorporated March 29, 1894. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

Colonel JOHN SCREVEN, Savannah. 

First Vice-President. 

Hon. WILLIAM DEARING HARDEN, Savannah. 

Second Vice-President. 

Col. JOHN MILLEDGE, Atlanta. 

Secretary. 

WILLIAM HARDEN, 184 President Street, Savannah. 

Assistant Secretary. 

JAMES BOLTON WEST, Savannah. 

Treasurer. 

WARING RUSSELL, Savannah. 

Registrar. 

JOSEPH GASTON BULLOCH, M. D., Savannah. 

Chaplain. 

Rev. LACHLAN C. VASS, D. D., Savannah. 

Historian. 

Hon. HARVEY JOHNSON, Atlanta. 

Surgeon. 

T. B. CHISHOLM, M. D., Savannah. 

Marshal. 

T. D. ROCKWELL, Savannah. 



Board of Managers. 

GEORGE LYMAN APPLETON, G. B. PRITCHARD, 

ROBERT F. BURDELL, W. J. DeRENNE, 

H. V. WASHINGTON, J. F. MINIS, 

G. H. STONE, M. D., POPE BARROW, 

ARMINIUS OEMLER. 

Delegates to the General Society. 
Hon. WILLIAM DEARING HARDEN, WILLIAM HARDEN, 

WILLIAM DANIEL GRANT (Atlanta), Rev. LACHLAN C. VASS, D. D., 

Col. JOHN SCREVEN. 

At TERNATK^ 

THOMAS PINCKNEY HUGER, ' GEORGE M. GADSDEN, 

HARVEY JOHNSON (Atlanta), HUGH V. WASHINGTON (Macon), 

JOSEPH G. BULLOCH, M. D. 



Total Membership, 117. 

(64) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

Organized in Fankuil Hall, October 1, 1891. 
Incorporated under the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, October 9, 1891. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
WILLIAM LEVERETT CHASE, 233 State Street, Boston. 

Vice- President. 
CLEMENT KELSEY FAY, Brookline, Mass. 

Secretary. 
HENRY DEXTER WARREN, Hotel Berkeley, Boston. 

Treasurer. 
ANDREW ROBESON. 

Registrar. 
WALTER KENDALL WATKINS, 18 Somerset Street, Boston. 

Historian. 
FRANCIS ELLINGWOOD ABBOTT, Ph. D., Cambridge, Mass. 

Chaplain. 
Reverend LEONARD KIP STORRS, D. D., Brookline, Mass. 



Board of Managers. 
WALTER GILMAN PAGE, WINTHROP WETHERBEE, 

WILLIAM CURTIS CAPELLE, ARTHUR BRIGGS DENNY, 

JAMES ATKINS NOYES, FREDERICK BANKER CARPENTER, 

WILLIAM EUSTIS RUSSELL, FRANK MERRIAM, 

MERIWEATHER HOOD GRIFFITH. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
FRANCIS ELLINGWOOD ABBOTT, 
PHILIP READE, U. S. A., 
THOMAS TALBOT, 
GEORGE REED RICHARDSON, 
HENRY DEXTER WARREN. 

Alternates. 
Hon. OLIVER AMES, 

Rev. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D. D., LL. D., 
Hon. WILLIAM FRANKLIN DRAPER, 
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STEVENS, 
JOHN HOFFMAN COLLAMON. 



Total Membership, - 302. 

5 (65) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF COLORADO. 

Instituted February 22, 1892. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

JAMES BENTON GRANT, Denver. 

Vice-President. 

SANDFORD CHARLES HINSDALE, Denver. 

Secretary. 

PERSIFOR MARSDEN COOKE, M. D., 1290 Race Street, Denver. 

Treasurer. 

WILLIAM DAVID TODD, Box 440, Denver. 

Registrar. 

THOMAS HENRY EDSALL, Colorado Springs. 

Chaplain. 

Rev. FRANKLIN SPENCER SPALDING, Denver. 



Board of Managers. 

THE OFFICERS, ex officio, 

NATHANIEL PETER HILL, 

Rt. Rev. JOHN FRANKLIN SPALDING, D. D., 

ROGER WILLIAMS WOODBERRY, 

JOHN BOYD VROOM, 

GEORGE WEBSTER PEIRCE, 

JOHN LLOYD McNEIL, 

SAMUEL WILEY BELFORD, 

HERMAN CHARLES JOY, 

REGINALD HEBER SMITH. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
WILLIAM GARRIT FISHER, 
Liedt.-Col. ALLAN HYRE JACKSON, U. S. A., 
WILLIAM HENRY BRYANT, 
FREDERICK JONES BANCROFT, M. D., 
LUTHER HALSEY WYGANT, Jr. 

Alternates. 
ROBERT BAILEY, 
GEORGE GRAY SPEER, 
ORLANDO BLODGET WILLCOX, 
PATTERSON CONN FISHEB, 
FRANCIS WHEELER TUPPER. 



Total Membership, 55- 

(66) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



STATE OF MARYLAND. 

Organized April 11, 1892. 
Incorporated under the Laws of the State of Maryland, April 13, 1892. 



OFFICEKS. 

President. 

Hon. JOHN LEE CARROLL, Ellicott City. 

Vice-President. 

McHENRY HOWARD, Central Savings Bank Building, Baltimore. 

Secretary. 

ROBERT RIDDELL BROWN, 213 St. Paul Street, Baltimore. 

Treasurer. 

WILLIAM BOWLY WILSON, 216 E. Baltimore Street, Baltimore. 

Registrar. 

HENRY OLIVER THOMPSON, 206 Courtland Street, Baltimore. 

Historian. 

CLAYTON COLMAN HALL, 10 South Street, Baltimore. 

Chaplain. 

Rev. WILLIAM MEADE DAME, 1409 Bolton Strest, Baltimore. 



Board op Managers. 

MOZART WILLIAM HAYDEN, WILLIAM FAIRFIELD LOCKWOOD, M. D. t 

WILMOT JOHNSON, CHARLES THOMAS CRANE, 

CHARLES O'DONNELL LEE, JOHN THOMSON MASON, R., 

WILLIAM HALL HARRIS. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

JOHN SELDEN SAUNDERS, WILLIAM BOWLY WILSON, 

THOMAS WILLIAM HALL, DANIEL COIT GILMAN, LL. D., 

OGDEN ARTHUR KIRKLAND. 

Alternates. 

EUGENE FAUNTLEROY CORDELL, M. D, JAMES WILSON PATTERSON, 

GEORGE THORNBURG MACAULAY GIBSON, JULIAN HENRY LEE, 
GEORGE SOMERVILLE JACKSON. 



Total Membership, 108. 

(67) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF MINNESOTA. 

Instituted April 17, 1898. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
CHARLES PHELPS NOYES, St. Paul. 

Vice-President. 
Right Reverend HENRY BENJAMIN WHIPPLE, D. D., LL. D. (Cantab.), Faribault, 

Bishop of Minnesota. 

Secretary. 
RUKARD HURD, No. 32 E. Fourth Street, St. Paul. 

Treasurer. 
GEORGE C. SQUIRES, St. Paul. 

Registrar. 
Captain EDWARD CORNING, St. Paul. 



Board op Managers. 
Captain W. C. BUTLER, U. S. A., 
W. C. EDGAR, 
JOSEPH E. McWILLIAMS, 
W. H. LIGHTXER, 
T. C. FIELD, 
R. B. C. BEMENT. 



Chaplain. 
Rev. EDWARD P. INGERSOLL, D. D., St. Paul. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
RUKARD HURD, 
HAZEN J. BURTON, 
LUTHER S. CUSHING. 



Total Membership, - - - - 65. 

(68) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA. 

Instituted May 8, 1893. Incorporated May 15, 1893. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

HOLDRIDGE OZRO COLLINS, Los Angeles. 

Vice-President. 

Major WILLIAM ANTHONY ELDERKIN, U. S. A., Los Angeles. 

Secretary. 
ARTHUR BURNETT BENTON, 114 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles. 

Treasurer. 

JOHNSTONE JONES, Los Angeles. 

Historian. 

JAMES MONROE ALLEN, San Francisco. 

Registrar. 

EDWARD THOMAS HARDEN, Los Angeles. 

Marshal. 

FRANK CLARKE PRESCOTT, Redlands. 

Chaplain. 

Rev. JOHN GRAY, Los Angeles. 



Board of Managers. 
HOLDRIDGE OZRO COLLINS, ARTHUR BURNETT BENTON, 

Maj. WILLIAM ANTHONY ELDERKIN, U. S. A., JOHNSTONE JONES, 
EDWARD THOMAS HARDEN. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
HOLDRIDGE OZRO COLLINS, 

Major WILLIAM ANTHONY ELDERKIN, U. S. A., 
JAMES MORTIMER MONTGOMERY, 
SPENCER ROANE THORPE, 
JOSIAH ALONZO OSGOOD. 

Alternates. 
JAMES MONROE ALLEN, EDWARD THOMAS HARDEN, 

WILLIAM CLEVELAND AIKEN, WILLIS PARRIS, 

FRANK CLARKE PRESCOTT. 



Total Membership, 47. 

(69) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF OHIO 

Incorporated May 2, 1893. Organized May 9, 1893. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

FRANK JOHNSTON JONES, Cincinnati. 

First Vice-President. 
GEORGE ELTWEED POMEROY, Toledo. 

Second Vice-President. 
ASA SMITH BUSH NELL, Springfield. 

Third Vice-President. 
CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN WAITE, Columbus. 

Fourth Vice-President. 
JOHN WHITTLESEY WALTON, Cleveland. 

Secretary. 
ACHILLES HENRY PUGH, 126 J Walnut Street, Cincinnati. 

Treasurer. 
RALPH PETERS, Cincinnati. 

Historian. 
Dr. GUST AV US SCOTT FRANKLIN, Chillicothe. 

Registrar. 
JOHN MARSHALL NEWTON, Cincinnati. 

Chaplain. 
Rev. DUDLEY WARD RHODES, Cincinnati. 



Board of Managers. 
JEPTHA GARRARD, ASA BUSHNELL MORGAN, 

Dr. JOSEPH E. BOYLAN, Captain THOMAS GERRY TOWNSEND, 

Dr HERMAN J. GROESBECK, PERIN LANGDON, 

GEORGE MERRELL, CHARLES ANDERSON, 

ANTHONY HOWARD HINKLE. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
SAMUEL MORSE FELTON, Dr. ARCHIBALD I. CARSON, 

BIRCHARD AUSTIN HAYES, EDWARD LOWELL ANDERSON, 

DOUGLAS PUTNAM, ACHILLES HENRY PUGH, 

RALPH PETERS, EPHRIAM CUTLER DAWES. 

Total Membership, 146. 

(70) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

m THE 

STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 

Instituted May 24, 1893. 
Incorporated under the Laws of the State op Connecticut, September 7, 1893. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

Hon. MORGAN GARDNER BULKELEY, Hartford. 

Vice-President. 

Hon. DANIEL NASH MORGAN, Treasurer of the United States. 

Secretary. 

CYRUS SHERWOOD BRADLEY, Southport. 

Assistant Secretary. 

ABRAM BALDWIN STURGES, M. D., Southport. 

Treasurer. 

Colonel HENRY WALTON WESSELLS, C. N. G., Litchfield. 

Registrar. 

JESUP WAKEMAN, Southport. 

Chaplain. 

Rev. N. ELLSWORTH CORNWALL, Stratford. 



Board of Managers. 
SATTERLEE SWARTWOUT, SIMON COUCH SHERWOOD, 

WILLIAM FREEMAN FRENCH, M. D., ROBERT CLARK MORRIS, D. C. L., 

Colonel GEORGE BLISS SANFORD, JOHN EDWARD HEATON, 

AUGUSTUS FLOYD DEL AFIELD, ALBERT PORTER BRADSTREET, 

OLIVER TAYLOR SHERWOOD. 

Delegates to the General Society. 
Rev. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, JESUP WAKEMAN, 

SATTERLEE SWARTWOUT, Hon. MORGAN GARDNER BULKELEY, 

ROBERT PEEL WAKEMAN. 

Alternates. 
AUGUSTUS FLOYD DELAFIFLD, Rev. N. ELLSWORTH CORNWALL, 

ROBERT CLARK MORRIS, D. C. L., WILLIAM FREEMAN FRENCH, M. D., 

CYRUS SHERWOOD BRADLEY. 

Total Membership, - - - 58. 

(71) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 

Organized June 19, 1893. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
Reverend HENRY EMERSON HOVEY, Portsmouth. 

Vice-President. 
ALEXANDER HAMILTON CAMPBELL, Concord. 

Secretary. 
THOMAS E. O. MARVIN, Portsmouth. 

Treasurer. 
STEPHEN DECATUR, Portsmouth. 

Registrar. 
HARRY B. CILLEY, Manchester. 

Historian. 
Professor RAPHAEL PUMPELLY, Dublin. 

Chaplain. 
Rev. ALFRED LANGDON ELWYN, Portsmouth. 



Board of Managers. 
SAMUEL S. GREEN, Chairman. 
THOMAS E. O. MARVIN, 
HARRY BOUTON CILLEY, 
ALEXANDER HAMILTON CAMPBELL, 
STEPHEN DECATUR, 
Prof. RAPHAEL PUMPELLY, 
Rev. ALFRED LANGDON ELWYN, 
MARCUS M. COLLIS. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
Rev. HENRY E. HOVEY, 
STEPHEN DECATUR, 
Rev. ALFRED LANGDON ELWYN, 
HARRY BOUTON CILLEY. 



Total Membership, 14. 

(72) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. 

Instituted October 24, 1893. Organized November 21, 1893. 
Incorporated under the Laws of the State of North Carolina, January 8, 1894. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

Hon. ELI AS CARR, 

Governor of North Carolina. 

Vice-President. 
Hon. KEMP P. BATTLE, LL. D., Chapel Hill. 

Secretary. 
MARSHALL DeLANCEY HAYWOOD, Raleigh. 

Registrar. 
Prof. D. H. HILL, Raleigh. 

Treasurer. 
Dr. H. B. BATTLE, Raleigh. 

Chaplain. 
Rev. ROBERT BRENT DRANE, D. D., Edenton. 



Board of Managers. 
SAMUEL A'COURT ASHE, Chairman. 
THE OFFICERS, ex officio, BOSWORTH CLIFTON BECKWITH, 

ALEXANDER QUARLES HOLLA DAY, GRAHAM DAVES, 
THOMAS STEPHEN KENAN, JOSEPH DOLBY MYERS, 

FRANK BATTLE DANCY, ALPHONSO CALHOUN AVERY, LL. D., 

PETER EVANS HINES, M. D. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
ALPHONSO CALHOUN AVERY, LL. D, MARSHALL DeLANCEY HAYWOOD, 
BOSWORTH CLIFTON BECKWITH, GEORGE BRADBURN CURTIS, 

COLLIER COBB. 

Alternates. 
ROBERT BRENT DRANE, D. D., FRANK BATTLE DANCY, 

JAMES DODGE GLENN, WILLIAM KEARNEY CARR, 

DANIEL HARVEY HILL. 



Total Membership, 27. 

(73) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF ILLINOIS. 

Instituted December 4, 1893. 
Incorporatkd under the Laws of the State of Illinois, January 13, 1894. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
Rev. WALTER DELAFIELD, 4333 Ellis Avenue, Chicago. 

Vice - Pres ideni. 

THOMAS FLOYD-JONES, 367 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. 

Secretary. 

ROBERT PATTERSON BENEDICT, 19 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. 

Assistant Secretary. 

ROY SMITH BURKHART, 19 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. 

Treasurer. 

JAMES FRANK KELLEY, 117 Monroe Street, Chicago. 

Chaplain. 

Rev. THADDEUS ALEXANDER SNIVELY, The Piazza, Lincoln Park, Chicago. 

Registrar. 

RICHARD HOPPIN WYMAN, Hartford Building, Chicago. 

Historian. 

HARRISON KELLEY, 99 Randolph Street, Chicago. 



Board of Managers. 

Rev. WALTER DELAFIELD, THOMAS FLOYD-JONES, 

J. FRANK KELLEY, RICHARD HOPPIN WYMAN, 

WALTER CHANNING WYMAN, Rev. THADDEUS ALEXANDER SNIVELY, 

JOHN CROCKER FOOTE, ROBERT PATTERSON BENEDICT, 

HENRY WALBRIDGE DUDELY, Rt. Rev. CHARLES REUBEN HALE, 

ARTHUR LEFFINGWELL, FRANK RHEES SEELYE, 

S. CLIFFORD PAYSON, DANIEL CHARLES DAGGETT, 

ONINGTON LUNT COMINGS. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
JAMES FRANK KELLEY, THOMAS FLOYD-JONES, 

WALTER CHANNING WYMAN, ARTHUR LEFFINGWELL, 

S. CLIFFORD PAYSON. 

Alternates. 
JOHN CROCKER FOOTE, HARRIS ANSEL WHEELER, 

GEORGE SAMUEL MARSH, Rt. Rev. CHARLES REUBEN HALE, 

HOMER WISE. 



Total Membership, 105. 

(74) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF MISSOURI. 

Instituted February 22, 1894. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

Rt. Rev. DANIEL SYLVESTER TUTTLE, D. D., S. T. D, St. Louis. 

Vice-President. 

Hon. HENRY HITCHCOCK, St. Louis. 

Second Vice-President. 

Hon. EDWARD HERRICK ALLEN, Kansas City. 

Secretary. 

HENRY CADLE, Bethany. 

Assistant Secretary. 

EWING McGREADY SLOAN, St. Louis. 

Registrar. 

General JAMES HARDING, Jefferson City. 

Treasurer. 

HENRY PURKITT WYMAN, St. Louis. 

Chaplain. 

Rev. GEORGE EDWARD MARTIN, St. Louis. 

Historian. 

Prof. ALEXANDER FREDERICK FLEET, A. M., LL. D., Mexico. 

Marshal. 
NORRIS BRADFORD GREGG, St. Louis. 



Board of Managers. 

Rt. Rev. DANIEL SYLVESTER TUTTLE, Hon. HENRY HITCHCOCK, 

Hon. EDWARD HERRICK ALLEN, HENRY CADLE, 

WALLACE DELAFIELD, JAMES LAWRENCE BLAIR, 

Hon. CHAUNCEY FORWOOD SHULTZ, TRUMAN AUGUSTUS POST, 

ALFRED LEIGHTON HOWE, CURTIS BURNAM ROLLINS, 

WILLIAM BROWN DODDRIDGE, GKORGE AMOS NEWCOMB, 
Hon. JOSEPH VAN CLIEF KARNES. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

Hon. THOMAS ADIEL SHERWOOD, HENRY CADLE, 

ISRAEL PUTNAM DANA, Dr. JOHN GREEN, 

Hon. JOHN SCOTT HARRISON. 

Alternates. 

Hon. HENRY LITTLETON EDMUNDS, RICHARD GENTRY, 

THOMAS JAMES, GEORGE WASHINGTON PARKER, 

HORATIO DAN WOOD. 



Total Membership, 180. 

(75) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF FLORIDA. 

Organized April, 1894. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

JOSEPH GASTON BULLOCK, M. D. 

First Vice-President. 

Dr. GEORGE TROUP MAXWELL, Jacksonville. 

Second Vice-President. 

Hon. GEORGE WASHINGTON WYLLY, Fort Reed. 

Secretary. 

E. M. GILBERT, Jacksonville. 

Assistant Secretary. 

ARCHIBALD HAGUE, Hague. 

Treasurer. 

Dr. CHARLES J. BURROUGHS, Jacksonville. 

Registrar. 

CHARLES D. MILLER, Peoria. 

Surgeon. 

Dr. J. N. D. CLOUD, Newmansville. 

Chaplain. 

Rev. JOHN B. DAVIS, Newmansville. 

Judge Advocate. 

Marshal. 
BAYLIS J. EARLE, Earl ton. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
Dr. JOSEPH G. BULLOCK, 
Dr. GEORGE TROUP MAXWELL, 
Hon. G. W. WYLLY, 
J. C. GETZEN. 



Alternates. 
(Not appointed.) 



Total Membership, 2 <>- 

(76) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF ALABAMA. 

Instituted April 16, 1894. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
JAMES EDWARD WEBB, Birmingham. 

Vice-President. 
JAMES FRANKLTN JOHNSTON, Birmingham. 

Second Vice-President. 
Dr. FRANK PRINCE, Bessemer. 

Secretary. 
THOMAS McADORY OWEN, Birmingham. 

Treasurer. 
WILLIAM P. G. HARDING, Birmingham. 

Assistant Secretary, Registrar and Historian. 
JESSE KILGORE BROCKMAN, Birmingham. 

Surgeon. 
Dr. EDWARD PULASKI LACEY, Bessemer. 

Chaplain. 
Dr. WILLIAM MARMADUKE OWEN, Bessemer. 



Board of Managers. 
JAMES E. WEBB, Chairman. 
WILLIAM HENRY JOHNSTON, M. D., THOMAS M. OWEN, 

ANDREW CHARLES MOORE, Dr. FRANK PRINCE, 

F. W. MOSBY, Dr. WILLIAM M. OWEN, 

JAMES F. JOHNSTON, WILLIAM P. G. HARDING, 

JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON, JESSE K. BROCKMAN, 

Dr. E. P. LACEY. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
WILLIAM BROCKMAN BANKHEAD, WIRT WEBB, 

THOMAS McADORY OWEN, JAMES BRAZER, 

ROBERT DANIEL JOHNSTON. 

Alternates. 

john McQueen, james l. sandefur. 

JAMES E. WEBB, Dr. FRANK PRINCE, 

JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON, ANDREW CHARLES MOORE. 



Total Membership, - - * - - 26. 

(77) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. 

Instituted April 19, 1894. 
Incorporated under the Laws op the State of West Virginia, May 7, 1894. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
JOHN MARSHALL HAGANS, Morgantown. 

Vice-President. 
JOHN DAILY, Piedmont. 

Secretary. 
HENRY HAYMOND, Clarksburg. 

Treasurer. 
WILLIAM CLARK McGREW, Morgantown. 

Registrar and Historian. 
JOHN GEORGE GITTINGS, Clarksburg. 



Board of Managers. 
JOHN BASSEL, THOMAS MOORE JACKSON, 

CHARLES MATTHEW HART, JOHN B. HART, 

JOHN GEORGE GITTINGS. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
NATHAN GOFF, WILLIAM F. PETERSON, 

CHARLES W. BROCKUNIER, JOSEPH MORELAND. 

Alternates. 
JOHN BASSEL, CHARLES M. HART, 

SAMUEL H. BROCKUNIER, THOMAS M. JACKSON, 

JOHN DAILY. 



Total Membership, ------- 15. 

(78) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF TENNESSEE. 

Organized November 24, 1894, 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
Col. W. P. WASHBURN, Knoxville. 

Vice-President. 
C. H. HUDSON, Knoxville. 

Secretary. 
HENRY HUDSON, Knoxville. 

Registrar. 
GEORGE W. HENDERSON, Knoxville. 

Treasurer. 
HORACE VAN DEVENTER, Knoxville. 

Chaplain. 
Rev. J. H. FRAZEE, Knoxville. 



Board of Managers. 

JOSHUA W. CALDWELL, HENRY HUDSON, 

W. P. CHAMBERLAIN, Rev. W. J. MORTON, 

Prof. JOSIAH HOLBROOK, HORACE VAN DEVENTER, 

C. H. HUDSON, J. VAN DEVENTER, 

Col. W. P. WASHBURN. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

HENRY HUDSON, W. P. WASHBURN, 

HORACE VAN DEVENTER, J. W. CALDWELL, 

GEORGE W. HENDERSON, HUGH F. VAN DEVENTER. 



Total Membership, 21. 

(79) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
C. S. GADSDEN, Charleston. 

Vice-President. 
T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES, Charleston. 

Secretary. 
GUSTAVUS M. PINCKNEY, Charleston. 

Treasurer. 
C. C. OLNEY, Charleston. 

Chaplain. 
Rev. JOHN JOHNSON, 53 Church Street, Charleston. 



Board of Managers. 

THE OFFICERS, ex officio, Rev. C. E. CHICHESTER, 

HAWKINS K. JENKINS, ROBERT L. DARGAN, 

JOHN GRIMBALL, EDWARD ANDERSON, 

ZIMMERMAN DAVIS, WILLIAM S. HASTIE, 

FRANK E. TAYLOR, WILLIAM HY. PARKER, Jr. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES, G. M. PINCKNEY, 

HAWKINS K. JENKINS, Rev. JOHN JOHNSON, 

WILLIAM HY. PARKER, Jr. 

A I/TERN AT.ES 

JOHN R. ABNEY, GEORGE W. OLNEY, 

FELIX WARLEY, G. R. GIBSON, 

TALBOT OLYPHANT. 



Total Membership, - - 4 2 - 

(80) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF KENTUCKY. 

Organized January 26, 1895. 
Incorporated under the Laws of the State op Kentucky, February 9, 1895. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
LESLIE COMBES, Lexington. 

Vice-President. 
JAMES DUANE LIVINGSTON, Lexington. 

Secretary. 
Prof. WILBUR R. SMITH, Lexington. 

Treasurer. 
LOUIS DES COGNETS, Lexington. 

Registrar. 
LUCAS BROADHEAD, Spring Station. 

Historian. 
Major H. B. McCLELLAN, Lexington. 

Chaplain. 
Rev. W. S. FULTON, D. D., Lexington. 



Board of Managers. 
JOHN T. SHELLY, LUCA.S BROADHEAD, 

Judge O. S. TENNY, LESLIE COMBES, 

LOUIS DES COGNETS, J. D. LIVINGSTON, 

Prof. WILBUR R. SMITH. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
JAMES DUANE LIVINGSTON, LESLIE COMBES, 

WILBUR R. SMITH, Judge GEORGE B. KINKEAD, 

LUCAS BROADHEAD. 

Alternates. 

Judge TENNY, JOHN T. SHELLY, 

Major H. B. McCLELLAN. 



Total Membership, 15. 

6 (81) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF MONTANA. 

Organized February 22, 1895. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
CHARLES H. BENTON, Great Falls. 

First Vice-President. 
JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, Livingston. 

Second Vice-President. 
ALDEN J. BENNETT, Virginia City. 

/Secretary. 
JAMES F. McCLELLAND, Great Falls. 

Historian. 
CHARLES H. ROBINSON, Great Falls. 

Registrar. 
JAMES HORTON RICE, Great Falls. 

Treasurer. 
JAMES MONTGOMERY BURLINGAME, Great Falls. 

Chaplain. 
CHARLES DWIGHT ELIOT, Great Falls. 



Board of Managers. 

JOSEPH OLDS GREGG, FRANK GOLD HOPKINS, 

SAMUEL BOSTWICK BOBBINS. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

(To be appointed.) 



Total Membership, 21, 

(82) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF TEXAS. 

Organized March 12, 1895. 
Incorporated April 19, 1895. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
C. L. HARWOOD, 106 Soledad Street, San Antonio. 

Vice-President. 
W. J. BATTLE, Austin. 

Secretary. 
H. M. AUBREY, San Antonio. 

Treasurer. 
JOHN A. GREEN, Jr., San Antonio. 

Registrar. 
REDFORD SHARPE, San Antonio. 

Chaplain. 
Rev. JUNIUS B. FRENCH, Fort Worth. 



Board of Managers. 

W. J. BATTLE, S. M. FINLEY, 

H. M. AUBREY, REDFORD SHARPE, 

G. S. SIMONS, W. P. FINLEY, 

HENRY TERRELL, JOHN A. GREEN, Jr., 

C. L. HARWOOD. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

(To be appointed.) 



Total Membership, 12. 

(83) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF VIRGINIA. 

Organized June 7, 1895. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
JAMES ALSTON CABELL. 

First Vice-President. 
FRANCIS L. SMITH. 

Second Vice-President. 
Dr. W. C. N. RANDOLPH. 

Secretary. 
R. T. W. DUKE, Jr. 

Registrar. 
CHARLES WASHINGTON COLEMAN. 

Treasurer. 
ROBERT LANCASTER WILLIAMS. 

Historian. 
J. R. V. DANIEL. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

R. T. W. DUKE, Jr., JAMES ALSTON CABELL, 

JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS, WILLIS B. SMITH, 

FRANCIS L. SMITH. 

Alternates. 

ROBERT LANCASTER WILLIAMS, CHARLES WASHINGTON COLEMAN 

WILLIAM CHASE MORTON, LYON G. TYLER, 

GEORGE PRESTON COLEMAN. 



Total Membership, 19. 

(84) 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF WASHINGTON. 

Organized March 26, 1895. 

IHCORI'ORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OP WASHINGTON, MARCH 2(1, 1895. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
JOSIAH COLLINS, Seattle. 

Vice-President. 
CHARLES KING, Taeoma. 

Secretary. 
GEORGE DON WORTH, Seattle. 

Registrar. 
LIVINGSTON BOYD STEDMAN, Seattle. 

Treasurer. 
CHARLES TALLMADGE CONOVER, Seattle. 

Chaplain. 
ROBERT BROOKE ALBERTSON, Seattle. 



Board of Managers. 

THE AFOREGOING OFFICERS, ex officio, with 

WILLIAM BROWNELL GOODWIN, GEORGE B. BLANCHARD, 

CHARLES EDWARD SHEPARD. 



Total Membership, .... - 10. 

(85) 



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